German Labour Front
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The German Labour Front was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung or Nazification.
Uniforms for leaders of the German Labour Front, 1943
Robert Ley
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Robert Ley was a German Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the Nazi Party, including Gauleite
German Labour Front
…The German Labour Front (DAF) was then created in May 1933 as the organization that was to take over the assets seized from the former trade unions. Robert Ley, who had no previous experience in labour relations, was appointed by Hitler to lead the DAF upon its creation. Three weeks later, Hitler issued a…
Ley in the 1930s
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor reviewing SS guards with Robert Ley, 1937
Philipp Bouhler, Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, and Robert Ley, in white uniform, with his wife Inge (Munich, July 1939)
The KDF-Schiff Robert Ley, March 1939