history mass organisations
- Created by: MillieLynch
- Created on: 18-03-16 11:42
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- Mass organisaton
- 1952: Sport and Technology association (GST)
- Activities
- Organise summer and holiday camps for "Young Patriots"
- Large numbers of school children attended
- Paramilitary educatin lessons
- Sailing, paragliding, driving lessons, learning how to operate amateur radios
- Organise summer and holiday camps for "Young Patriots"
- Membership
- Designed to be a paramilitary organisation, and training ground for the next generation of GDR soldiers
- 4/5ths in a survey only were a part of the organisation because it was fun
- Gained personal enjoyment from facilities without buying into socialist view.
- 77% desired atheists, nearly a quarter religious :(
- Activities
- The League of Culture (KB)
- Activities
- Discussion and philosophical circles
- Leisure persuits
- Sailing
- Allotment gardening
- Small-animal breeding
- Astronomy
- Some groups, apolitical
- Sorting out neighbourhood disputes
- Membership
- Targeted at intellectuals
- "Socialist culture in the highest form of human culture"
- 1,500,000 full members by 1988
- Activities
- German Sport and Gymnastic Union (DTSB)
- Activities
- Membership
- Free Trade Union Federation (FDGB)
- Activities
- Took complaints about poor working conditions,bad management, health and safety
- Membership
- Over 9 million members
- by 1980. covered 100% of adult population
- Perks
- Regular holidays within GDR
- became taken for Granted
- Activities
- Democratic German Women's League (DFD)
- Activities
- Membership
- The Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF)
- Activities
- Films
- Cultural activities
- Learning Russian language
- exploration and expression of cultural interests
- Membership
- 2nd largest mass organisation after the FDGB (5,500,00 members)
- Activities
- 1952: Sport and Technology association (GST)
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