单词 | strength through joy |
释义 | > as lemmasstrength through joy strength through joy n. historical a movement founded in Germany by the National Socialist Party in 1933 to promote physical and cultural recreational activities among working people; the ideals or activities of this; (in extended use, usually depreciative) similar ideals or activities pursued elsewhere. Frequently attributive. [After German Kraft durch Freude, the name of the organization (1933; also used attributively, although more commonly in the abbreviated form KdF).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > German politics > [noun] > political associations or societies Tugendbund1828 Spartacus group1918 Reichsbanner1924 Stahlhelm1927 strength through joy1933 S.D.S.1968 1933 Times 30 Nov. 13/6 The ‘after work’ institutions of that body [sc. the German Labour Front] are not to be called officially N.D.A. (Nach der Arbeit)..but the ‘Kraft durch Freude’—‘Strength through Joy’—community. 1934 Times 1 Feb. 13/7 Herr Alfred Rosenberg..will also watch over the work known as ‘Strength through Joy’, in which the leisure time and pursuits of the workers are to be organized. 1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 iii. 201 During the first days after the ‘Anschluss’, 10,000 [Austrian] workers..had been invited for a fourteen-day trip to Germany where they..were shown the institutions of the Kraft durch Freude (strength through joy) movement. 1943 Tribune 4 June 19/1 The strength-through-joy brigades you will have met Whose mouths are baggy and whose hair is scented. 1962 L. R. Banks End to Running ii. iv. 177 Full of an awful sort of phoney strength-through-joy. 1973 ‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea x. 156 The girl..looked as if she had graduated from one of Lee Kuan Yew's strength-through-joy courses. 1975 Listener 16 Jan. 71/3 Physical fitness was a Nazi fetish..bronzed young Germans cultivating ‘strength-through-joy’. 1979 J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor xv. 86 ‘They sent me up to Scotland.’ It was a toughening-up course at a Strength Through Joy Camp... Survival. Living off the land. 2011 T. S. Brown in S. Duncombe & M. Tremblay White Riot iv. 128 Strength Through Oi! (a play on the name of the Nazi-era leisure-time organization Strength Through Joy). < as lemmas |
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