Borrowed from German DAF (“Deutsche Arbeitsfront”).
Meanings
(Nazism, historical) The German Labour Front.
Keen to avoid civil unrest and thus give the Americans a pretext to take it back, French authorities allowed Stuttgart’s antifascists considerable leeway in dismantling the Nazi-era German Labor Front (DAF), rebuilding shop-floor organization in the factories, and organizing the population in cross-party antifascist alliances. 2017 May 14, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine: