(Beamter) and therefore the preferred term for professional functionaries of the party and its branches. Those persons working in the state apparatus continued to be called Beamte. Amt Feierabend ('Office for After-Work Activity') – aimed to organize workers' after-work activities as part of the Strength Through Joy policy. Amt Volksbildungswerk ('Office for Popular Education') – aimed to organize ideologically approved education for workers as part of the Strength Through Joy policy. Anbauschlacht – Battle for Cultivation. Angstbrosche ('badge of fear') – an ironic expression for the Nazi Party pin worn by latecomers to the Party in 1933. Anhaltelager – a temporary detention camp. Anordnung – an order, instruction or regulation. Anschluss (Anschluß) – annexation, in particular the annexation of Austria in March, 1938. Anti-Comintern Pact – the agreement by Germany, Japan, and Italy to oppose the Communist International (the Comintern) directed by Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union. Arbeit adelt ('labor ennobles') – Motto applied to the blades of uniform daggers worn by officers of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, the State Labor Service). Arbeit macht frei ('work will set you free') – an old German peasant saying, not invented by the Nazis. It was placed above the gate to Auschwitz by the commandant Rudolf Höß. The slogan which appeared on the gates of numerous Nazi death camps and concentration camps was not true; those sent to the camps certainly would not be freed in exchange for their hard labor. Instead they were generally worked to death or exterminated when they could no longer perform labour for the Reich. Arbeitnehmerschaft ('workforce') – the Nazis took this word to mean both manual and mental workers. "Arbeitertum der Faust und der Stirn" ('Workers of both manual and mental labor') – blue-collar and white-collar workers. This was the Nazi Party self-description as an "all-inclusive workers' party". Arbeitsdienstführer ('labor service leader) – an official responsible for labor output and performance in a concentration camp. Arbeitserziehungslager ('workers' educational camps') – camps established for recently released concentration camp inmates designed to provide additional training for industrial work. Arbeitsplatzwechselverordnung (APWVO) – a legal order to change jobs. Arbeitsscheue – a person who avoids work. Germans who rejected opportunities to work were categorized and placed in protective custody (Schutzhaft), which implied that they were slackers. In most instances, they were reported to the Gestapo and thereafter interned at the Buchenwald concentration camp for a three-month period. Arbeitsschlacht ('battle for work')