>I would have hung Hitler and the rest of the traitors
Look up the riots in Germany in 1918 and the conditions there between 1918 and the beginning of the Great Depression when the other nations wanted to increase the reparations payments from Germany
The Nazi Party offered them their pride back among other things
Germany was one of the countries that suffered worst from The Great Crash of 1929. Along with many European nations, Germany was cast into the darkest of economic times. As a result, the number of unemployed people increased greatly. This situation paved the way for Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist party, and they came to power with the election of 1933. The Nazis’ primary objective was to bring Germany to the position of being the greatest nation of the globe, no matter the cost. Violating the Versailles Treaty of 1919, they soon began rebuilding the country’s military forces, thus creating a great number of job opportunities for the people.
The country’s pride on the high seas also needed to be reinforced. The two German superliners of the early 1930s, the Bremen and Europa, no longer held the Blue Riband. Yet Germany would not go for this prize, they would instead start a special type of cruising activity. The highly effective propaganda makers in the Third Reich conceived the idea that would soon be known as ‘Kraft durch Freude’, or ‘Strength through Joy’, in 1934. Commonly known as the KdF, the program was partly a result of the Depression.
When the Nazis came to power, they soon sequestered all trade unions in Germany. All workers were instead to join the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) or German Labour Front. Naturally, not all workers would do this if they could gain nothing from it, so Hitler needed a carrot to lure them with. The answer lay in the Kraft durch Freude-scheme. As a member of the DAF, a worker would be given the opportunity to go on low-price ship cruises to exotic destinations. This would make the workers happy, thereby increasing their work ability – hence the expression ‘Strength through Joy’. The offer of cruising was also given to the members of the Nazi party.
When the program first set off, the ships needed were taken from Germany’s three largest shipping companies; the Hamburg-Amerika Line, Norddeustcher Lloyd and the Hamburg South-America Line, in Germany commonly known as Hamburg Süd. Ships as the Dresden, Der Deutsche, Oceana and Monte Olivia which might otherwise have been laid up during the Depression were now put to good use. The KdF-program soon proved to be one of the Nazis’ greatest ideas. The Germans loved the cheap cruises, as they gave them the opportunity to visit places they had never thought possible. During the first three years of the KdF-program, the ships were nearly booked solid on every voyage. This led the DAF to order two especially built cruise ships for the program.
One of these ships was built as yard no. 511 at the shipyards of Blohm & Voss in Hamburg. It had been decided to have the name of a high-ranking Swiss Nazi who had been assassinated in 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff. On May 5th 1937, the new ship was launched in the presence of among others Adolf Hitler himself. The late Wilhelm Gustloff’s widow gave the ship her husband’s name, and sent it to the water by smashing a bottle against the ship’s bow.
The Wilhelm Gustloff and her running mate Robert Ley, which was being built at the yards of Howaldt in Hamburg and would enter service in 1939, would go into history as the world’s first purpose-built cruise ships. These two vessels brought equality to the high seas. All cabins on board lay along the side of the ship’s hull, so that no one would lack a supply of natural illumination. The passengers were not divided into classes, and it was notable that the crewmembers were given the exact accommodation as the passengers. The ships had not been built as luxury ships, but simply as comfortable ones. Therefore, there were not more passenger amenities than needed. Nevertheless, the German people loved them and the cruises they offered.
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The Prora resort was also from the "Strength Though Joy" Program