RAD Summer Cap
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SKU: 80.GOR.01.01.04.001.000
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Fern green cotton exterior with brown threading in the stitching, red, white, black and green embroidered RAD insignia stitched in place on the front peak, inside lined in brown cotton, stamped in black ink with the size "55", the date "1943" and coded "0/0250/0906", with an additional rectangular boxed RAD mark nearby, which has faded with time, measuring 180 mm x 245 mm x 93 mm, the protruding visor exhibiting cracking in its reinforcing stiffener, very light wear, extremely fine.
The RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst = Reich Labour Service) was officially established on June 26, 1935 as the sole, and compulsory, labour service of Germany. Its purposes were to help the economy, curb unemployment, and indoctrinate its members with the NSDAP ideology, as well as play its part in militarising the German population.
The FAD (Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst = Voluntary Labour Service) was the precursor of the RAD in the early 1930s. Official uniform regulations were first introduced on October 1, 1933, with modifications made in July 1934. It is also known as NSAD (Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst = National Socialist Labour Service).
The earliest uniforms were a not entirely successful attempt at standardisation. They gave way to a second wave of FAD uniforms that, when the RAD was established, experienced no significant changes.
The Sommermütze (Summer Cap) was introduced in 1942 for wear with the work uniform during the summer months. The cap is made of green herring-bone twill, with a simulated turn-up flap, no buttons or air vents, and a soft visor.
It features the RAD emblem at the front.
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