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Here is your chance to pick up a gorgeous stickpin from the Kraft durch Freude organization. Maker marked on the reverse and sports the bear image of the city of Berlin. A rare example so don’t miss out! The Kraft durch Freude was a state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was a  part of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, the national German labour  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. 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 almost ceased to exist and operated as support  for soldiers behind front lines.  Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!