German Labor Front
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Association of employers and employees during the Nazi era
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- DAF
- Predecessor
- National Socialist Factory Cell Organization
- Formation
- 10 May 1933 ; 93 years ago ( 1933-05-10 )
- Dissolved
- 8 May 1945 ; 81 years ago ( 1945-05-08 )
- Legal status
- Illegal
- Members
- 32 million (1938)
- Leader of the daf
- Robert Ley
- Parent organization
- NSDAP
- Subsidiaries
- National Socialist Trade and Industry Organization, Beauty of Labour , Strength through Joy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- employers' organization
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Parent organization
- Nazi Party
- Political ideology
- corporatism
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- inception
- 1933-05-10
- Commons category
- German Labour Front
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
- member count
- 22000000
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1945-10-10
- P8168
- Wimal Weerawansa
- subject named as
- Deutsche Arbeitsfront
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Encyclopedic overview
The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaʁbaɪtsfʁɔnt]; DAF) 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.
History
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