---
title: 'KdF-Schiff "Robert Ley", Jungfernfahrt: Adolf Hitler an Bord'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kdf-schiff-robert-ley-jungfernfahrt-1939/
description: Four men sit on deck chairs on a promenade deck, one in party uniform with a swastika armband, another in a light overcoat and soft hat.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Press photograph from the 1939 maiden voyage of the Kraft durch Freude ship 'Robert Ley', with a man in party uniform and swastika armband. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![KdF-Schiff "Robert Ley", Jungfernfahrt: Adolf Hitler an Bord](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kdf-schiff-robert-ley-jungfernfahrt-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kdf-schiff-robert-ley-jungfernfahrt-1939.jpg)

# KdF-Schiff "Robert Ley", Jungfernfahrt: Adolf Hitler an Bord

Four men sit on deck chairs on a promenade deck, one in party uniform with a swastika armband, another in a light overcoat and soft hat. The archive's press caption presents the leader among the ship's 'Arbeiterurlauber' (working-class holidaymakers).

## Text on the object

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No printed text is legible on the print.

[← Ausstellung »Der ewige Jude«: Schautafel »Jüdische Drückebergerei und Betriebsamkeit im Weltkrieg«](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ewige-jude-ausstellung-schautafel-berlin-1938/) [Title card from a captured Japanese newsreel: the Emperor commends the Xuzhou campaign (May 1938) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xuzhou-imperial-commendation-newsreel-card-1938/)

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