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
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).
- Date
- April 1939
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Kraft durch Freude (maiden voyage of the 'Robert Ley')
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- Event
- Kraft Durch Freude
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2006-1128-504), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives), as stated on the Commons file page
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2006-1128-504 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
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No printed text is legible on the print.
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