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    NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude (German for 'Strength Through Joy'; KdF) was a German NSDAP-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was part...
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    Robert Ley was a cruise ship of the Nazi Party leisure organization Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy). It was considered the flagship of the KDF...
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    Originally constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude) organization in 1937, Wilhelm Gustloff had been requisitioned by...
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    "guests" officially received 97.32% of the votes. The recently completed Kraft durch Freude cruise ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was anchored in international waters...
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  • Fechtens), a historical system of combat taught in the Holy Roman Empire Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy), a large state-operated leisure organization...
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    subsequently, Volkswagen introduced fifty VW39 cars, completed in July 1939. Kraft durch Freude was in charge of this project. Robert Ley, a Nazi official, announced...
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  • Stockhausen An die Freude; see Ode to Joy Jesu, meine Freude, hymn Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, 1723 motet by Johann Sebastian Bach Kraft durch Freude; see Strength...
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    Germany between 1936 and 1939 as part of the Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude or KdF) project. It consisted of eight identical buildings and was...
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    Culture"), NS-Kulturgemeinde ("NS-Cultural Community") (including the Kraft durch Freude ("Strength Through Joy") and Deutsche Bühne ("German Stage") theatres)...
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  • July 1942. Nevertheless, all naturism clubs had to register with Kraft durch Freude, which meant excluding Jews and Communists. Also, they had to keep...
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  • – official name of the Type I Volkswagen Beetle, a project of the Kraft durch Freude program. Kehlsteinhaus – The "Eagle's Nest," Hitler's summerhouse...
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    preventing labour disaffection, the DAF established Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF), to provide a range of benefits and amenities to the German...
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    Deutsche Arbeitsfront) as part of the Strength Through Joy (German: Kraft durch Freude) program in Berlin. In the early 1930s, cars were a luxury – most...
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    quintessentially German. Throughout the 1930s, the Nazi organization KDF (Kraft durch Freude) "Strength through Joy" organized regular day trips to Rothenburg...
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    additions focussed on artists and intellectuals. Beginning in 1933, when Kraft durch Freude and other National Socialist organizations promoted trips to Walhalla...
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  • Organization) Several other sub-organizations were set up, including: Kraft durch Freude (KdF; Strength through Joy) – Organization giving the workers cheap/free...
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    before the Second World War also marketed by Nazi propaganda as the "Kraft durch Freude" or "KdF-Wagen" (Strength Through Joy‑car). The factory was built...
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  • the White Rose being once again active. Nazi organisations such as Kraft durch Freude still exist and fulfill their original roles such as providing holidays...
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    Krössinsee, Ordensburg Vogelsang and Chiemsee; Prora, the massive Nazi Kraft durch Freude seaside spa on the island of Rügen; a new domed train station for...
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    other models under the Volksempfänger, Gemeinschaftsempfänger, KdF (Kraft durch Freude), DKE (Deutscher Kleinempfänger), and other brands. The Volksempfänger...
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    Ost-Afrika Linie passenger cargo liners MV Wilhelm Gustloff (1937), a Kraft durch Freude ("Strength Through Joy") cruise ship whose sinking was history's worst...
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    Sarmiento were chartered to provided cruise holidays for the state-owned Kraft durch Freude ('Strength through Joy') programme. This provided concerts, lectures...
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  • wanted to produce a car that was affordable for the masses – the Kraft-durch-Freude-Wagen (or "Strength-Through-Joy car", from a Nazi social organization)...
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    with the Nazi leisure organization known as Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude), which is also abbreviated KdF. Some historians, such as Christopher...
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    Knowledge" (Haus des Wissens) measuring 100 metres by 300 metres, a "Kraft durch Freude" hotel with 2000 beds, and the biggest sports facilities in Europe...
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    message "Deutschland ruft dich!" ("Germany is calling you!"), and the Kraft durch Freude scheme's discount-travel programme offered special cut-rate packages...
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  • political party in India Kenya Defence Forces KDF Energy, Romania Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy), the state-operated leisure organization in...
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  • outlawed. An all-embracing recreational organization for workers, called Kraft durch Freude ("Strength Through Joy") was set up under the auspices of the German...
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    and a struggle against Marxism. The German Labour Front founded the Kraft durch Freude (KdF; Strength Through Joy) organisation in 1933. As well as taking...
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  • Dirk Bogarde's autobiography and was not based on the Nazi slogan "Kraft durch Freude".[citation needed] However, it continued in the controversial theme...
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