In the Shadow of the Swastika: May Day and the Quashing of the Unions

May Day, famously the day of the international worker. It was a day used by Unions and by the parties, especially in Germany, to unite their workers in putting down tools as a demonstration of international strife. However, when the NSDAP came to power in 1933, and Hitler became Chancellor and with that Joseph Goebbels the Reich Propaganda Minister, they quickly set about destroying the powers of old and turning May Day into Tag der nationalen Arbeit. 

Join Simon J. James in this adventure into the history of May Day and how the NSDAP powers subverted it, turning it into their own propaganda festival. 

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