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Here is your chance to pick up an impressive banner. This example is for the KdF organization with impressive gold bullion trimming throughout. Multipiece KdF emblem applied to a wool body banner. Bullion loops at the top for hanging and gold bullion fringe on the bottom edge. Maker label in the corner for Fahnenfleck Hamburg 3. Measures about 62-1/4″ long including the fringe and loops and just over 44-1/2″ wide. Minor moth damage to the obverse and reverse wool material throughout, as well as minor staining from water exposure at some point. Regardless a unique piece that you won’t see again!Click HERE to view more images of this item! 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!
