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Robert Ley (German:; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German politician during the Nazi era, who headed the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945.
Robert Ley (born Feb. 15, 1890, Niederbreidenbach, Ger.—died Oct. 25, 1945, Nürnberg) was a Nazi politician and head of German labour, who helped supervise the recruitment of slave labour during World War II.
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Robert Ley. In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge—how to hold individually accountable those German leaders who were responsible for the commission of monstrous crimes against humanity and international peace.
Ley is best known for heading the German Labour Front (DAF), the Nazi-run workers’ union formed in mid-1933. Under his command the DAF changed workplace culture, fixed wages, reduced workers’ rights and grew to more than 25 million members.
Robert Ley was a German politician during the Nazi era, who headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the German Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.
In 1936, Robert Ley, the head of the German Workers' Front, addressed an audience on the Nazi economic recovery.
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Robert Ley joined the Nazi Party in the 1920s and held a series of party offices, including the position staff chief of NSDAP political organizations. From 1930 on, he was also a member of the Reichstag.
