Reichsluftschutzbund
thumb|RLB poster from The Reichsluftschutzbund (RLB; "Reich Air Protection League") was a civil defense organization in Nazi Germany in charge of air raid precautions in residential areas and among smaller businesses.
Key facts
- Government agency.agency_name
- National Air Raid Protection League
- Government agency.nativename
- Reichsluftschutzbund
- Government agency.logo
- Flagge Reichsluftschutzbund 1939.svg
- Government agency.logo_width
- 150
- Government agency.logo_caption
- Flag of the Reichsluftschutzbund
- Government agency.picture_width
- 250px
- Government agency.formed
- 29 April 1933
- Government agency.dissolved
- 1945
- Government agency.jurisdiction
- Nazi GermanyOccupied Europe
- Government agency.minister1_name
- Hermann Göring
- Government agency.minister1_pfo
- Reich minister of Aviation
- Government agency.chief1_name
Article
4 sectionsContents
- Purpose
- Organization
- See also
- References
thumb|RLB poster from The Reichsluftschutzbund (RLB; "Reich Air Protection League") was a civil defense organization in Nazi Germany in charge of air raid precautions in residential areas and among smaller businesses.
==Purpose== The RLB was organized by Hermann Göring in 1933 as a voluntary association. Existing volunteer air raid precaution associations were forced to merge with RLB. In 1939 the RLB became a Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization), while in 1944 it became an affiliated organization of the Nazi Party. RLB was dissolved by the Allied Powers after the end of World War II. Its successor in the Federal Republic of Germany was the Bundesverband für den Selbstschutz.