Rare
colour footage of the KdF trip to Norway. The KdF trips were initiated
specially for the German workers.
“To provide affordable vacations for German workers on a hitherto
unprecedented scale, Hitler established the "Strength through Joy"
program. As a result, hundreds of thousands of workers were now able to make
relaxing vacation trips on land and sea each summer. Magnificent cruise ships
were built, and special trains brought vacationers to the mountains and the
seashore. In just a few years, Germany's working-class tourists would log a
distance equivalent to 54 times the circumference of the earth! And thanks to
generous state subsidies, the cost to workers of these popular vacation excursions
was nearly insignificant.”
Gen. Leon Degrellé
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