GERMANY: Bygone Joy

Announced the Nazis' Brussels radio: "The Strength Through Joy movement will celebrate its tenth anniversary today with a dancing festival in Berlin." Unhappily for bumptious, bottle-worn Robert Ley, the tenth anniversary of his beloved movement coincided with Berlin's blitz (see p. 30). Undaunted, the Labor Front leader took to the radio. Said he: "There is one particular thought that could drive me crazy—the thought that these war criminals of London, Washington and Moscow hinder us in ...

realizing our plans ... for the symphony of work which I had planned and Adolf Hitler had approved."

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