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UNIQUE NAZI RAD WOMAN’S PHOTO ALBUM
RAD girl photo
RAD WEIBLICHE
JUGEND
(STATE LABOR SERVICE
FOR YOUNG WOMEN)
ACTIVE DUTY
PHOTO ALBUM
RAD Weibliche Jugend
RAD photo Album
This is a fine album of approximately 100 photographs, several postcards, two documents and some original artwork made during the active labor service of a young German woman, Gretl Neumann of Wien (Vienna), Germany (now Austria).
RAD men
RAD girls
Neumann received her “Notice to Report” as a RAD volunteer in October 1939 (this document is included in the album). She reported to Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD or State Labor Service) Lager 9/55 in very rural Großullersdorf and began the process of gaining an appreciation for hard work and good fun.

Many of the photographs that Gretl Neumann chose to illustrate her album contain pictures of her at work and at play, in her RAD uniform and out of it. There are photographs of morning Appel with all the women in a circle saluting a RAD flag in the center of the Lager or camp.

The entire camp (in the eastern Sudetenland) is shown as are the individual barracks, the train and the train station, the town and its surrounding countryside. Gretl Neumann is shown giving a “Shoulder Arms” Salute with a huge dipper, reading with other weibliche Jugend, clowning in a man’s RAD uniform, sawing wood, with a Christmas tree, and on dates with men in uniforms.
TENO man
Gretl Neumann went skiing and enjoyed an accordion being played by a friend, did a lot of cleaning and took very good quality photographs of her companions and their surroundings including one shot of an unusual airplane. There is a picture of Gretl Neumann with a Technische Nothilfe (TENO or Technical Emergency Service) man, maybe a beau or brother, tending a garden, in sports clothing and going for a bike ride.
RAD girls
Nazi airplane
There are three gorgeous full-color RAD postcards and a postcard to Gretl Neumann from someone who remained at the Lager after she went back to Wien.

Also pasted on one page of the album is an Urlaubschein or “Vacation Permit” with all the appropriate Nazi stamps, for a holiday Gretl Neumann took while she was an Arbeitsmaid at Großullersdorf.
Reichsarbeitsdienst photo album
Reichsarbeitsdienst photo album
RAD photo album
RAD uniforms
The front cover of this album has a 1-3/4 inch silver colored metal medallion of the REICHSARBEITSDIENST WEIBLICHE JUGEND above the motto Arbeit für Dein Volk adelt Dich Selbst (Work for Your Nation Ennobles You).

As a collector, if I was to have only one Reichsarbeitsdienst photo album, it would be this one. A well-maintained album for a known person at a known RAD Lager, with lots of high-quality photographic and other material.
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