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Most of the visitors are sheltered in camps pitched within a ten-mile radius, the fun-spot being the semipermanent Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) camp midway between the old town and the party grounds. Every night up to 100,000 Nazis who are to perform before the Fuhrer on the morrow are bedded in barracks at the Party Camp adjoining the broad Lake Dutzend and buildings. Pending the completion of super-colossal March Field, Adolf Hitler this week had to be content with the Zeppelin Meadow, holding 100,000 spectators. And pending the completion of the Nazi Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Centre Of The World! | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Joy Meet | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...hrer Adolf Hitler fortnight ago surmounted the cornerstone of what he promised would eventually be the world's largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German's life as an Ersatz sausage in every pot. "This streamlined four-seater," barked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Joyous Lizzie | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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