Friday, 14 August 2015

Voyage of the KdF Cruise Ship "Robert Ley" to Norway (1938)


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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