Hitlers Traumschiffe: Die 'Kraft durch Freude'-Flotte 1934 - 1939

The construction and use of leisure vessels for the "little guy" was one of the great social achievements of the National Socialist community "Strength through Joy" in the German Labor Front (DAF), which as the "biggest leisure station in the world" and attracted international attention at the time. Initiated by their leader Dr Robert Ley, were first made in the spring of 1934 Lake Recreation Travel for workers possible and thus laid, not least, the foundations of today's mass tourism. In a unique, never before published color images - including travel brochures, menus, among other things - This book documents the travels with three of the einklassigen cruise ships to the end of August 1939 with the KdF ship "The German," the first DAF own ship to cruise "Around Italy", with the "Robert Ley", the largest ship of the KdF fleet, the Spanish Atlantic island of Tenerife, with the "Wilhelm Gustloff" to Norway. Finally, the six DAF own and the six chartered KdF ships that made a dream vacation to a total of 673 voyages over 700,000 workers, employees and their spouses between 1934 and 1939 contributed, not about the nickname "Hitler's fleet of Peace ', demonstrating Show it on their trips abroad the will of the German people for nation-building and to international understanding. In the historical account of the origin and development of the German Labor Front, the National Socialist community "Strength through Joy" and their dream ships with exciting fact reports fascinating, technically top-class photographs that illustrate this largely neglected by historians of the peace during the Third Reich colorful follow. This stand out particularly often quite or double-page color photos that - then picked up by fellow travelers