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The magazine offered here is a rare example of the Third Reich international magazine Freude und Arbeit (Joy and Labor - Gioia e Lavoro - Alegria y Trabajo - Joie et Travail) published by Nazi Organization Leader Dr. Robert Ley for distribution around the world.

For a comprehensive overview of both Dr. Ley and his magazine Freude und Arbeit see additional background information at the bottom of this USMBOOKS web page. *

The Freude und Arbeit magazine we offer here is the heavily illustrated 120-page Issue 3 of Year 4.

Behind a colorful big 10-½ x 14-½ inch cover there are photo features about United States of America, the Berlin International Auto Show, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in Warsaw, Facts about London and the World Congress Meeting, the Joy through Work Congress in Stockholm planned for 1940, Portuguese East Africa, Berlin-Rome-Tokyo, the German Embassy in Paris, the Belgian Consulate in Berlin, the Dutch-German Trade Reception in Berlin, Theater in Finland, Reichsminister von Ribbentrop and Diplomatic News, and “The Revolution of Thinkers” by Reichspressechef Dr. Otto Dietrich.

This 85 year old issue of Freude und Arbeit also has photos of Mrs. Inge Ley with her baby daughter (Lore Ley), Hermann Göring with Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, Berlin film actresses in color, Belgian King Leopold and his children, Dr. Ley’s birthday visit to Nazi Ordensburg Sonthofen in Bavaria, Hitler at the Berlin International Auto Show, the Führer with “his SS and Hitler Youth”, Dr. Joseph Goebbels in Leipzig, Mussolini - the Sportsman, as well as a beautiful full-page color illustration of a view of Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

Few people know it but World War I flying veteran and close friend of Adolf Hitler, Dr. Robert Ley was the genius behind most of the organization of the Nazi Party. As Reichs Organization Leader from 1931 onward, he was responsible for the publication of the Organisationsbuch der NSDAP, which outlined how every Nazi paramilitary unit from the SS to the Hitler Youth was organized, what uniforms they wore and what their mission was. As Reichsleiter of the DAF he built the Ordensburg Castles at Vogelsang, Crössensee and Sonthofen. He built the towns and factories that produced everything from Volkswagens to tanks and airplanes to ships and plywood. He oversaw every laborer that worked on the Reichsautobahn.

The part played by Dr. Ley in organizing the rag-tag political party Hitler dreamed up, is without parallel and is poorly reported on or understood today. The NSDAP could not have existed without Dr. Ley, and no one should attempt to discuss, write, or lecture on the subject of Nazi Germany without first gaining a good grounding with regard to Dr. Ley. It is absolutely fundamental to any understanding of the Nazi Party, or any aspect of the history of the country of Germany from 1920 to the present day.

An understanding of Ley’s renown outside of Germany may be gotten from the fact that at the World Congress for Leisure Time and Recreation in Hamburg, Germany in 1936 Dr. Robert Ley was elected President. This was not a German organization but an international organization of 51 independent countries. Ley used his position in the World Congress for Leisure Time and Recreation to create an Internationale Zentralbüro Freude und Arbeit (International Headquarters of Joy and Work) which in turn published a huge, beautiful, multi-lingual 10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch, magazine called Freude und Arbeit (Joy and Labor - Gioia e Lavoro - Alegria y Trabajo - Joie et Travail).

There is display advertising by companies such as Mauser, Hanomag, Kino, Siemens, Böhler Edelstahl, Thonet chairs, Allianz, hotels and guest houses all over Greater Germany and the back cover has a full-page, five-language ad for the Bach Foreign Language School in Reichsmessestadt Leipzig.

Many of the captions and articles in Freude und Arbeit are in English as well as in German, French and Italian, depending on the subject. This Third Reich magazine is complete and in good used condition. it has no offensive odor.

* THE BACKGROUND OF DR. LEY AND THE MAGAZINE FREUDE UND ARBEIT