Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Ship’s program, 5 x 7.5, two pages, listing the menus and daily activities for April 3, 1939, aboard the liner Robert Ley. Cover bears a color image of the ship, with a printed message that the cruise is offered to all German workers through the Strength Through Joy program. Inside bears a list of events for the day aboard the ship, including deck concerts, a movie and dance, and lists the menu for the day. Signed at the top of the left hand page, in German, “In happy remembrance, Adolf Hitler,” and signed on the opposite page, also in German, “In devoted friendship, Lierl Gotta, from R. Ley.” In very good to fine condition, with a small spot along inside hinge, and some scattered light toning and foxing, a bit heavier to front and back cover.
Hitler and Ley, the head of the German Labor Front, were aware that their suppression of the trade unions in the 1930s, coupled with demands for increased productivity in the workplace, created a risk of working-class discontent. To ward off potential problems, Ley’s organization established a state-controlled leisure organization, Strength Through Joy, to provide various benefits to German workers and their families, with the aforementioned cruise ship, christened after Ley, constructed to take members on Mediterranean cruises. A bizarre artifact from the eve of world conflict.
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