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"The German Labor Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''—RAD) arose from a party organization set up in 1931 and known as the ''NS-Arbeitsdienst'' for the purpose of easing unemployment,"<ref>United States War Department, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=b3W1tiuHzcoC Handbook on German Military Forces]'' (Washington: GPO, 1945) p. 203</ref> "like its New Deal equivalent, the Civilian Conservation Corps,"<ref>David Schoenbaum, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=1wNCSxrUlyMC Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997) ISBN 0393315541, p. 78</ref> which would be established in 1933.<ref>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14609 Executive Order 6101 Starting The Civilian Conservation Corps], The American Presidency Project, University of California - Santa Barbara</ref> According to Garraty, both
"The German Labor Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''—RAD) arose from a party organization set up in 1931 and known as the ''NS-Arbeitsdienst'' for the purpose of easing unemployment,"<ref>United States War Department, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=b3W1tiuHzcoC Handbook on German Military Forces]'' (Washington: GPO, 1945) p. 203</ref> "like its New Deal equivalent, the Civilian Conservation Corps,"<ref>David Schoenbaum, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=1wNCSxrUlyMC Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997) ISBN 0393315541, p. 78</ref> which would be established in 1933.<ref>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14609 Executive Order 6101 Starting The Civilian Conservation Corps], The American Presidency Project, University of California - Santa Barbara</ref> According to Garraty, both
{{cquote|were essentially designed to keep young men out of the labor market. Roosevelt described work camps as a means for getting youth ‘off the city street corners,’ Hitler as a way of keeping them from ‘rotting helplessly in the streets.' In both countries much was made of the beneficial social results of mixing thousands of young people from different walks of life in the camps. Furthermore, both were organized on semimilitary lines with the subsidiary purposes of improving the physical fitness of potential soldiers and stimulating public commitment to national service in an emergency.<ref>John A. Garraty, "[http://www.jstor.org/pss/1858346 The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression]," ''The American Historical Review'', Vol. 78, No. 4 (October, 1973), pp. 907-944</ref>}}
{{cquote|were essentially designed to keep young men out of the labor market. Roosevelt described work camps as a means for getting youth ‘off the city street corners,’ Hitler as a way of keeping them from ‘rotting helplessly in the streets.' In both countries much was made of the beneficial social results of mixing thousands of young people from different walks of life in the camps. Furthermore, both were organized on semimilitary lines with the subsidiary purposes of improving the physical fitness of potential soldiers and stimulating public commitment to national service in an emergency.<ref>John A. Garraty, "[http://www.jstor.org/pss/1858346 The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression]," ''The American Historical Review'', Vol. 78, No. 4 (October, 1973), pp. 907-944</ref>}}
==National Youth Administration==
The National Youth Administration was conceived as a New Deal “alternative to the Hitler Youth,” designed to hold young people “to their patriotic loyalties.”<ref>Richard A. Reiman , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=wRNiQgAACAAJ The New Deal & American Youth: Ideas & Ideals in a Depression],” (University of Georgia Press, 1992) ISBN 0820314072. Cf. Herbert Mitgang, “[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/13/books/books-of-the-times-on-the-new-deal-s-effort-to-put-youth-to-work.html On the New Deal's Effort to Put Youth to Work],” ''The New York Times'', January 13, 1993</ref> Addressing the Advisory Committee of the NYA, Harry Hopkins confidently told them, “we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do legal.”<ref>Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow (eds.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=W-U5AAAAMAAJ Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations]'' (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972) ISBN 0155923919, p. 234</ref> Hopkins had immediately hired the Communist ([[#refHUAC50.2|HUAC 1950, pt. 2]]: 2850 [PDF 16]) lawyer [[Lee Pressman]] was back into the government after he was “purged” from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. ([[#refHUAC50.2|HUAC 1950, pt. 2]]: 2849 [PDF 15]) According to Pressman, Hopkins told him, “The first time you tell me I can’t do what I want to do, you’re fired. I’m going to decide what I think has to be done and it’s up to you to see to it that it’s legal.” ([[#refGall99|Gall 1999]]: 32)</ref>
=="Friendly Fascism"==
=="Friendly Fascism"==