Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521833523)

The giant Nazi leisure and tourism agency, Strength through Joy (KdF)'s low cost cultural events, factory beautification programs, organized sports, and, especially, mass tourism mitigated the tension between the Nazi regime's investment in rearmament and German consumers' desire for a higher standard of living. Shelley Baranowski reveals how Strength through Joy de-emphasized the sacrifices of the present while its programs presented visions of a prosperous future--that would materialize as soon as "living space" was acquired. As an agency open to racially acceptable Germans only, it segregated the regime's victims from the Nazi "racial community."

Author: Shelley Baranowski
ISBN-10: 0521833523
ISBN-13: 9780521833523
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2004
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.32w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 727