Original KDF TASCHEN ATLAS Kraft Durch Freude, (Strength Through Joy) Pocket Atlas-This is a small paperback booklet that contains 48 pages of maps of Germany. This would have been sold by the KDF for a suggested price of 20 pfennig. The front and back cardboard dover of this book has been folded, almost as if someone had it in their pocket. This is a great looking little book overall.
History: Kraft durch Freude translates to "Strength through Joy", (abbreviated KdF) was a state-operated leisure organization in Germany. It was a part of the German Labor Front (DAF), the national German labor organization at that time. Set up as a tool to promote the advantages of National Socialism to the people, it had become the world's largest tourism operator by the 1930s. The KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses. 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. With the outbreak of war in 1939, the organization was mothballed.