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	Kraft durch Freude
		Kraft durch Freude (abbreviated KdF and meaning 'strength through joy'), was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany, a part of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), the national German labour organization.
		KdF organized a special saving scheme to allow ordinary workers the luxury of a car.
		However, due to the start of World War 2 very little of this was realised and both the factory and the rest of KdF became focused on supporting the war efforts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kd/KdF.html (136 words)

	Kraft durch Freude
		The NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude, the National Socialist Organization Strength through Joy, was a subset of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, the national German labor organization.
		The largest and most famous KdF ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, served initially as a hospital ship during WWII, later as a barracks ship, and was sunk in January of 1945 with a loss of 9,343 lives, the largest single naval loss in history.
		The NS Society Kraft durch Freude gave German workers the possibility of vacationing at the beach or in the mountains, or to explore the homeland.
	www.feldgrau.com /KdF.html (1255 words)

	Kraft durch Freude - Die NS Gemeinschaft KDF
		November 1933 gegründete Organisation „Kraft durch Freude“ war der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (DAF) untergeordnet und zuständig für die Freizeitgestaltung der deutschen Bevölkerung.
		Dies alles wurde durch die Mutterorganisation „Deutsche Arbeiterfront“ subventioniert, die sich bei der Auflösung der Freien Gewerkschaften deren Vermögen angeeignet hatte.
		Außerdem steigerten sich durch die besondere Pflege der Arbeiter ihre Leistungen in den Betrieben und die Produktion von wichtigem Kriegsmaterial ging schneller voran.
	www.shoa.de /kdf.html (1127 words)

	Hitler and the Volkswagen
		KdF was the abbreviation for "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength through Joy), a subsidiary of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front), headed by Robert Ley.
		This chapter on the beginnings of the Volkswagen is taken from a book celebrating the achievements of "Kraft durch Freude." As it turned out, not many people got their cars until after the war.
		It was thus no surprise that early in 1937 the Führer gave the leader of the German Labor Front the order to use all the means of his organization of millions of workers, along with the NS Community "Kraft durch Freude," to realize his dream.
	www.bytwerk.com /gpa/vw.htm (1896 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: Katharina Rostock (Rügen, Germany): KdF - The Proposed Seabath of the 20000 at Prora on the island ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		15: Katharina Rostock (Rügen, Germany): KdF - The Proposed Seabath of the 20000 at Prora on the island of Rügen
		KdF - The Proposed Seabath of the 20000 at Prora on the island of Rügen
		Katharina Rostock (Rügen, Germany): KdF - The Proposed Seabath of the 20000 at Prora on the island of Rügen. In: TRANS.
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/10_5/rostock15.htm (1835 words)

	Nationalsozialismus.de » DAF - Kraft durch Freude (KdF)
		Kraft durch Freude war eine Unterorganisation der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (DAF).
		Kraft durch Freude sollte also primär den inneren Frieden sichern, indem es den Arbeitern versprach, was sich bis dahin nur die Oberschicht leisten konnte: Reisen und eine ausreichende, ausgefüllte Freizeit.
		KdF wurde von der DAF mit 8 Mio.
	www.nationalsozialismus.de /lexikon/daf-kraft-durch-freude-kdf (1370 words)

	Kraft durch Freude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Above all, KdF would bridge the class divide by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses.
		KdF was awarded the Olympic Cup for the year 1939 by the International Olympic Committee
		The KdF, in the beginnings of World War II became involved in the euphemistically named "euthanasia" program (actually Action T4).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kraft_durch_Freude (449 words)

	Dokumentationszentrum Prora - Kurzinformation
		Here, between 1936 and 1939, the "Kraft durch Freude" organisation constructed the mostly finished several kilometre long complex of buildings that were to form a resort.
		Adjacent to the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, the KdF seaside resort in Prora is the largest architectural project of the time that was actually carried out.
		People who witnessed the construction works, the utilization of the buildings, those who took part in “Kraft durch Freude” excursions or may even enlighten us about the atmosphere at work and their social situation during National Socialism are all very welcome.
	www.dokumentationszentrum-prora.de /seiten_english/kurzinfo.html (434 words)

	Kraft durch Freude : KdF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		terms defined : Kraft durch Freude : KdF
		All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
		Fortune sent me an auxiliary not less influential than these two January, 1769, he returned from his government of Guienne to enter believe it?) resulted from his reputation as a man of intrigue.
	www.termsdefined.net /kd/kdf.html (271 words)

	Kraft durch Freude Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.
		Eine Übersicht der Artikel, die mit dem Thema Kraft durch Freude verwandt sind finden Sie auf der Seite alle Artikel über Kraft durch Freude.
		Fragen zu dem Thema Kraft durch Freude können in dem Diskussionsforum gestellt werden.
		In Prora auf der Ostseeinsel Rügen sollte ein riesiges Urlaubszentrum der KdF entstehen.
	kraft_durch_freude.know-library.net (673 words)

	Memorabilia From the "WILHELM GUSTLOFF"
		The Wilhelm Gustloff (25484 BRT) was launched in 1937 as the crown jewel of the Kraft durch Freude or Strength through Joy Nazi organization (KdF).
		The KdF was a subgroup of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront or German Labor Front (DAF).
		The DAF had as its goal the control and direction of the entire German labor force, and the KdF was used as a means towards this end by providing activities such as trips, cruises, concerts, and cultural activities.
	www.oceanliner.com /spec9.htm (865 words)

	TGOL - Robert Ley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The idea was rather simple: as a member of the German Labour Front or the Nazi Party, everyone would be given the opportunity of a low-price ship cruise to various destinations.
		"The purpose of the ‘Kraft durch Freude’ organisation is to show the less fortunate the wonders and beauties of their nation.
		The Robert Ley served as a Kdf cruise ship for about two months, but was called in for other duties in May of 1939.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /robertley.html (1244 words)

	Gunboards - Anschutz 4mm trainer with Swastika, value? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The KdF was designed to provide organized leisure activities for the German work force including trips, cruises, concerts, cultural activities and obviously shooting activities.
		Cruise ships were taken for training purposes and virually no-one ever got their VW as they went to the military.
		The KdF marked 4mm Anschutz rifles are somewhat uncommon and fetch somewhere in the $600 range if in really nice condition.
	www.gunboards.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6836 (814 words)

	Kraft durch Freude
		November 1933 gegründete NS-Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude" (KdF) war die populärste Organisation im NS-Regime.
		Das Volkswagen-Projekt sowie Nah- und Fernreisen gehörten zu den wichtigsten Aktivitäten der Freizeitorganisation KdF, einer Unterorganisation der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (DAF).
		Das von der NS-Propaganda stark herausgestellte "Prunkstück" von KdF war ihr Reiseprogramm.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/kdf/index.html (306 words)

	German Joys: The Strength through Joy Mobile
		When the early VW versions were introduced, Hitler abruptly changed the name of the car to KdF Wagen.
		KdF stood for "Kraft durch Freude" which meant "Strength through Joy." "Strength through Joy" was part of a scheme to provid holidays to workers at inexpensive rates, and was related to the "Beauty of Labor" (Schönheit der Arbeit) office.
		The name-change upset Porsche, as he was not a member of Hitler's Nazi-Sozi party, and he didn't support Hitler's use of socialist propaganda to advertise the car.
	andrewhammel.typepad.com /german_joys/2005/06/the_strength_th.html (885 words)

	TGOL - Wilhelm Gustloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The highly effective propaganda makers in the Third Reich conceived the idea that would soon be known as ‘Kraft durch Freude’, or ‘Strength through Joy’, in 1934.
		Commonly known as the KdF, the program was partly a result of the Depression.
		The answer lay in the Kraft durch Freude-scheme.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /wilhelmgustloff.html (1390 words)

	Oregon Magazine
		The “Kraft durch Freude (KdF)” or “Strength through Joy” movement was a brilliantly successful and highly popular labor innovation.
		And genius that Porsche was, by the time the “beetle” was locked into its production version it was a far better car than the one he thought he was designing, with more interior space, more endurance and even better mileage.
		With typical acid working class German humor, the story is still told of the disgusted KdF factory worker who had turned in his stamps and still hadn’t had his car delivered.
	oregonmag.com /AdolfsBug.htm (1397 words)

	Damned or deified? - Dancer Friderica Derra de Moroda - Biography Dance Magazine - Find Articles
		Designated a master pupil by the famous pedagogue, she was one of the founders of the Cecchetti Society.
		It is easier to explain why Derra de Moroda vacillated between ballet and modern dance than to discover how she could have been patronized by both the Nazi Party and Britain's monarchy.
		In her position at KDF Ballet, she had access to top Nazi officials and, when a manpower shortage developed during the war, those officials gave her authority to recruit into her company any dancer she could find in slave labor factories and concentration camps.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_8_77/ai_105710134 (594 words)

	KdF Wagen - Ultimatecarpage.com forums
		The KdF Wagen,anyone knows about it?It is the FIRST ever beetle-type car to be produced...In Adolf Hitler's time...
		Adolf Hitler's desire that almost anybody should be able to afford a car fit with a proposal by car designer Ferdinand Porsche, although Hitler himself played some role in the car's shape and, possibly, nickname.
		Prototypes of the car called the KdF-Wagen (German: Kraft durch Freude = strength through joy), appeared from 1935 onwards—the very first prototypes were produced by Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart.
	www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/showthread.php?p=227700 (635 words)

	Membership in the National Union
		The Arbeitsfront had a subsidiary group called the "Kraft durch Freude", or "Strength through Joy" movement.
		The Nazi party in Germany recognized much of their strength came from working-class Germans who had borne the brunt of difficult economic times in the 1920s.
		The Arbeitsfront had its own design of automobile, known in the 30s the "Kraft durch Freude Wagen" or the "Strength Through Joy Car", called a "KdF Wagen" for short.
	www.coba.usf.edu /satterfield/warstuff/arbeitsfront.htm (797 words)

	TIME.com: -- Jul 4, 1938 -- Page 1
		In TIME of June 13 under Transport you are translating the name of the German movement Kraft durch Freude as Strength through Joy.
		This is a correct literal translation but does not express the spirit or thought back of the movement.
		To express Kraft durch Freude in English and retain its initial meaning it would be much more fitting to translate it as Vigor through Enjoyment or Vitality through Delight or Health through Happiness.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,759909,00.html (653 words)

	ePier - Kraft durch Freude KdF Atlas 1930s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Your bid is a legally binding contract to purchase the item from the seller, only place a bid If you're serious about buying the item.
		This is an interesting little softcover atlas issued by Kraft durch Freude or KdF in the 1930s.
		Your bid is a legally binding contract to purchase the item from the seller, so only place a bid If you're serious about buying the item.
	www.epier.com /biddingform.asp?1347355 (101 words)

	German Auxiliary Forces in WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wehrmachtsgefolge provided all manner of support to the Wehrmacht in the form of added transportation, construction help, garrision and security work, combat engineering, railway repair, anti-aircraft defense, air raid protection and early warning services, and in the end, even frontline combat duty.
		The other forms of auxiliary formations, although not specifically known as Wehrmachtsgefolge, such as the Hitler Jugend, Kraft durch Freude, Deutsche Reichsbahn, and Deutsche Rote Kreuz, also provided invaluable support to the Wehrmacht.
		Those listed here at left are by no means all such organizations that existed during WWII, but they are those that most directly supported the Wehrmacht or the war in general during and prior to WWII.
	www.feldgrau.com /auxiliary.html (296 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ruins from giant Nazi beach resort sold in Germany Thu Sep 23, 1:11 PM ET ROSTOCK, Germany (AFP) - Ruins from a massive vacation resort built by the Nazis on the Baltic island Ruegen were sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for 625,000 euros (768,000 dollars).
		The concrete-block lodgings, built in the 1930s to accommodate some 20,000 people under the Nazis' Kraft Durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) leisure program, stretches 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) along one of Germany's most beautiful sandy beaches.
		The federal government had been trying to unload the structure, known as the Colossus of the Baltic...
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=kraftdurchfreude (652 words)

	Inverted Totalitarianism
		Stated positively, the Nazis wanted a mobilized society eager to support endless warfare, expansion and sacrifice for the nation.
		While the Nazi totalitarianism strove to give the masses a sense of collective power and strength, Kraft durch Freude ("Strength through joy"), inverted totalitarianism promotes a sense of weakness, of collective futility.
		While the Nazis wanted a continuously mobilized society that would not only support the regime without complaint and enthusiastically vote "yes" at the periodic plebiscites, inverted totalitarianism wants a politically demobilized society that hardly votes at all.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20030519/wolin (1169 words)

	Wehrmacht KdF Theater Program
		During World War II the National Socialist Community “Kraft durch Freude” (KdF, or Strength Through Joy) brought plays, musical concerts and other entertainment to troops in the field at the direction of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.
		The lower outside corners are missing, but other than that, the program is in very nice original condition.
		The back cover has the radiating swastika emblem of the KdF on a background of a theatrical drape.
	www.usmbooks.com /buehne.html (360 words)

	Kraft on Almondnet
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	www.dmug.org.uk /apple/kraft.html (299 words)

	tulip-enterprises report kraft durch freude prora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the murals and XL paperworx we made that summer in our "Kraft durch Freude" atelier.
		Notice how the unique baltic summer light radically changed our color scheme.
		Also new is the musical "fade-in" theme that has since proven so effective especially in our frieze paintings.
	www.tulip-enterprises.de /reportprora3.html (47 words)

	For A Better Life \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's not that the values expressed are bad, but historically, appealing to simple pushy virtues has been very much a feature of Fascism.
		Seeing "strength" and "hard work" in the same list, I immediately thought of "Kraft Durch Freude" and "Arbeit Macht Frei".
		As gimonca says, given the previous affiliations and activities of those behind the campaign, it'd be naive to view its intention as altruistic.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/36761 (3778 words)

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