Original Item: Only One Available. The DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront or German Labor Front) was a National Socialist trade union that supplanted independent unions once the NSDAP had come to power in Germany. This is a great original German WWII DAF signal whistle (Trillerpfeifen), with a small piece of old twine through the hanger loop. The mold lines on the pink plastic body are easily visible, and it has a DAF cogwheel logo on one side, with the number 13 on the other. We assume these were used by the DAF Werkscharen factory brigades when ensuring compliance. The whistle is in good shape overall with some minor chipping, with the color well retained. Please note that there is no "pea" inside this whistle, so it would not have the trill often heard. We assume that it either never had one, or that it deteriorated.

A very interesting piece of DAF Labor Corps material, ready to research and display!

With the dissolution of all Free Trade Unions in Germany in May 1933 the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, (German Labor Front), was established to replace the unions and to educate the workers in industry and commerce for smooth and efficient operation of all labor in the Third Reich. In October 1934 the DAF was given official status as a sub-section of the NSDAP and in March 1936 it was recognized as an independent NSDAP affiliated association and granted control of its own monetary budget. With this money it was able to procure its own signs and other insignia.

Theoretically, DAF existed to act as a medium through which workers and owners could mutually represent their interests. Wages were set by the 12 DAF trustees. The employees were given relatively high set wages and security of employment, and dismissal was increasingly made difficult. Social security and leisure programs were started, canteens, breaks, and regular working times were established, and German workers were generally satisfied by what the DAF gave them in repayment for their absolute loyalty. Employment contracts created under the Weimar Republic were abolished and renewed under new circumstances in the DAF. Employers could demand more of their workers, while at the same time workers were given increased security of work and increasingly enrolled into social security programs for workers. The organization, by its own definition, combated capitalism and liberalism, but also revolution against the factory owners and the National Socialist state. The DAF, however, did openly prefer to have large companies nationalized by the German state, instead of privately owned companies.