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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou...he Labour organization law of 20 January 1934.
Councils of Trust (German: Vertrauensräte) were established in businesses and companies with more than 20 employees in Nazi Germany following the introduction of the Labour organization law of 20 January 1934. They served as the only representation of employees to the “factory leader” (i.e. entrepreneur) (Betriebsführer) in order to increase mutual trust within the factory community.[1] Councillors were elected by secret ballots, but the list of candidates was prepared by the factory leader and the German Labour Front overseer (Betriebsobmann). The councils did not play an active role in industrial relations, except to serve as a platform for discussing working conditions regulated in the “factory code of rules” (Betriebsordnung).[2]
Council of Trust
Vertrauensräte
DAF Betriebsgemeinschaft.jpg
Council of Trust in German Labour Front organigram
Purpose
Representation of employees to the “factory leader”
Location
Germany
While in 1934 only 2 per cent of businesses and companies were required to establish a council of trust, this affected 46.2 per cent of employees.[3]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy
The KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses.[3] It also sought to bolster the German tourist industry, something it did successfully up until the outbreak of World War II. By 1934, over two million Germans had participated in a KdF trip; by 1939 the reported numbers lay around 25 million people.[citation needed] With the outbreak of war in 1939, the organization was mothballed, and several projects, such as the Prora holiday resort, were never completed.
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Activities Edit
Dancing and gymnastics in the KdF, 1933
Prora, KdF resort
Adolf Hitler and Robert Ley on board the ship Robert Ley in 1939
Starting in 1933, the KdF provided affordable leisure activities such as concerts, plays, libraries, day trips and holidays.[1] Large ships, such as Wilhelm Gustloff, were built specifically for KdF cruises. The KdF rewarded German workers, by taking them and their families to the movies, to parks, keep-fit clubs, hiking, sporting activities, film shows and concerts. Borrowing from the Italian fascist organization Dopolavoro ("After Work"), but extending its influence into the workplace as well, the KdF rapidly developed a wide range of activities, and quickly grew into one of Nazi Germany's largest organizations; official statistics showed that in 1934, 2.3 million people took KdF holidays. By 1938, this figure rose to 10.3 million.[4]
Two weeks after the Anschluss, when SS-Gruppenführer Josef Bürckel became Reichskommissar für die Wiedervereinigung (Reich Commissioner for Reunification) as well as Gauleiter, the first five trains with some 2,000 Austrian workers left for Passau, where they were ceremonially welcomed. While Bürckel announced that he did not expect all KdF travellers to return as National Socialists, he did expect them to look him in the eyes and say, "I tried hard to understand you."[5]
The Nazi government also sought to attract tourists from abroad, a task performed by Hermann Esser, one of the secretaries of the Ministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda). A series of multilingual and colourful brochures, titled "Deutschland", advertised Germany as a peaceful, idyllic, and progressive country, on one occasion even portraying the ministry's boss, Joseph Goebbels, grinning in an unlikely photo series of the Cologne carnival.[6]
In 1939, the KdF was awarded the Olympic Cup by the International Olympic Committee.[7]
At the outbreak of war, holiday travel was stopped; up until this point, the KdF had sold more than 45 million package tours and excursions.[8] By 1939, it had over 7,000 paid employees and 135,000 voluntary workers, organized into divisions covering such areas as sport, education, and tourism, with wardens in every factory and workshop, employing more than 20 people.[citation needed]
The cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed in 1945
The "People's Car" Edit
Volkswagens on an empty autobahn
The KdF's most ambitious programme for German workers was to set up production of an affordable car, the "KdF-Wagen", which later became the Volkswagen Beetle ("Volkswagen" being German for "People's Car"). This was originally a project undertaken at Hitler's request by the engineer Ferdinand Porsche. When the German car industry was unable to meet Hitler's demand that the Volkswagen be sold at 1,000 Reichsmarks or less, the project was taken over by the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF). Now working for the DAF, Porsche built a new Volkswagen factory at Fallersleben, at a huge cost partly met by raiding the DAF's accumulated assets, and misappropriating[citation needed] the dues paid by DAF members.
The Volkswagen was sold to German workers on an installment plan, where buyers of the car made payments and posted stamps in a stamp-savings book, which, when full, would be redeemed for the car. Due to the shift of wartime production, no private citizen ever received a "Kdf-Wagen", though after the war, Volkswagen did give some customers a 200 DM discount for their stamp-books. The Beetle factory was then primarily converted to produce the Kübelwagen, the German equivalent of the Jeep. The few Beetles that were produced went to the diplomatic corps and military officials.[9]
After work Edit
The Feierabendgestaltung ("After-work organization") was the "planned" structuring of daily leisure time within the KdF programme, attempted by the National Socialists through individual state agencies, including the Amt Feierabend (Office for After-Work Activity) and the Amt Volksbildungswerk (Office for Popular Education).[10] In National Socialist usage, the term "after-work organization" was increasingly applied to the entire area of organized leisure activity, including holidays.[citation needed]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_of_Labour
The Beauty of Labour (Schönheit der Arbeit) was a propaganda organization of the Nazi government from the period 1934 to its eventual disbandment in 1945. One of its principle functions was workplace design and the beautification of the German work environment.[1][2] Initially a propaganda machine, the SdA worked bilaterally with its counterpart organisation Strength Through Joy (KdF) to achieve an overall appeasement of the general population. The organization campaigned for improved cleanliness, better hygiene, proper work attire, changing rooms, lockers, better air, and less noise in factories and other places of employment.[3] Beauty of Labour was one of the many areas that made up the Nazi labour union, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF or "German Labour Front") and was directed by Albert Speer.[4]
Beauty of Labour stamp on a cup
Campaigns such as the Fight against Noise and Good ventilation in the workplace gave the Hitler-led government the ability to stimulate productivity within the workplace while simultaneously installing a sense of community and greater cordiality between the government and the German population.[5]
