Word: arbeitsfront
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...Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather than the Nazi Arbeitsfront. When war came he joined the Wehrmacht as a private, finished up as a first lieutenant in an American P.W. camp. Blank makes frequent speeches about how the new army will be de-Prussianized; the real soldiers who will command the troops are currently being kept out of the headlines...
...love the last two regimes to which it was subjected [those of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg]. The new regime appeals very powerfully to the whole lower middle class and to a great part of the workers. . . . Under the new regime the proletariat has been rapidly absorbed into . . . the Arbeitsfront [labor front...
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