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.”