@article{779969,
      recid = {779969},
      author = {Timpe, Julia,},
      title = {Nazi-organized recreation and entertainment in the Third  Reich /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's  vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in  Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring  happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans,  carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch  Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices  and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and  analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment  events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites  and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's  activities in entertaining German soldiers and  concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer  scholarship which focuses on the integratory force of the  Nazi promise of a unified 'racial community' of all 'Aryan'  Germans, this book highlights that Kraft durch Freude's  'everyday production of joy' was central to Nazism, closely  connected to the destructive side of the Third Reich, and  ultimately a major reason for Nazism's success among the  German population.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/779969},
}