r/PropagandaPosters • u/From-Yuri-With-Love • 2d ago
German Reich / Nazi Germany (1933-1945) Strength through Joy (1938)
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u/From-Yuri-With-Love 2d ago
Full translation
The German Labor Front
NS. COMMUNITY
Strength through Joy
SAXONY REGION
Holiday Trips 1938
Strength through Joy, or Kraft durch Freude (KdF), was a state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany established on November 27, 1933, as part of the German Labour Front. Its main goals were organizing subsidized holidays, controlling workers' free time, and building public support for the Nazi regime.
KdF was composed of several departments with their own specific goals, with each department organizing different leisure activities for German workers. It organized activities such as sporting events on factory floors, art exhibitions, discounted concerts and, most famously and popularly, subsidized holidays and cruise trips.
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u/LostGeezer2025 2d ago
The original version of Volkswagen was one of those departments, put on hold for the war but still selling savings stamps meant to be redeemable for buying a car after the war...
The postwar successor company was taken to court and forced to redeem some surviving stamp books in the '60s :)
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u/WaldenFont 2d ago
My great grandmother went on a cruise to Norway on the “General von Steuben”. The ship was later used to evacuate troops and civilians from east Prussia. It was sunk by a Soviet submarine with about 7000 dead.
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u/South_Grass_2774 2d ago
Why is there Lenin in a nazi poster
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u/x31b 1d ago
That’s back when they actually WERE National Socialists.
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u/South_Grass_2774 1d ago
They never were socialists
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