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The magazine offered here is a 1938 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. *

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).

This 1938 issue of Freude und Arbeit has consumer advertising from Mercedes-Benz, IG Farben, Deutsche Reichsbahn, the Bach School in Leipzig, Mauser, Ford am Rhein, Wertheim, Karstadt and Hertie department stores in Berlin, and others.

The Freude und Arbeit magazine we offer here is the 132-page Issue 9 of Year 3, the September 1938 Hungarian issue. Following a full-page image of police, SS and Hungarian athletes photo features include the SS contingent at the grave of King Heinrich at Quedlinburg (RFSS Himmler, SS-Gruppenführer Wolf, Gauleiter Jordan, SS-Gruppenführer Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer Heissmeyer), 3000 kilometers by bus through Southern France and Switzerland, Emmy Göring at Carinhall, .....

The photo above, showing Dr. Ley in conversation with the Duke of Windsor, is for reference only .

This 85+ year old example of Freude und Arbeit is complete and in good used condition, and has no odor.

..... Dr. Ley in Leverkussen (above), the German Postal System, Dr. Hans Frank and the Evening Reception at the Academy for German Law, the introduction of new Bulgarian cabinet members, Nikolaus Horthy von Nagybanya’s state visit to Nazi Germany, the Joy and Labor Congress in Rome in 1938, scenes from diplomatic circles, new books published in Nazi Germany, watercolors of Rothenburg on the Tauber river (below), the new Gauführerinnenschule in Pomerania, the Black Forest, a visit to the King of Sweden, a visit by the Rumanian MInister of Labor Michael Ralea to in Germany (Dr. Ley showed him around at Ordensburg Vogelsang), Rumanian royalty, sports winners at Breslau, Dr. Ley tries out the Gotha Go150 aircraft, Gustavus Town Kirby during a visit to Italy, etc.

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

Many of the captions and articles are in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.