Kraft durch Freude (KdF, literally "Strength Through Joy") was a large state-controlled leisure organization in the Third Reich, a part of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeiterfront - DAF), the national German labour organization at that time. Set up as a tool to promote the advantages of National Socialism to the people, it soon became the world's largest tourism operator of the 1930s.[LINK: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,494971,00.html] Wellness unterm Hakenkreuz (German) - Spiegel Online, Thursday 19 July 2007 Goals The organization had the self-declared goal of creating "a National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft ("people's community") and the perfection and refinement of the German people." It aimed to reach this goal by organizing tight and thoroughly structured recreational programs. Robert Ley, one of KdF's founders, quoted Hitle

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