Tourism Activities of the Organization “Force through Joy” as a Legitimation Factor of the Nazi Political and Legal Regime (1933-1939)

Raisat Saidovna Izudinova,Evgenia Andreevna Vasilkova,Evgenii A Palamarchuk,Andrey Yuryevich Mordovtsev,Tatyana Vasilyevna Mordovtseva

doi:10.5539/jpl.v13n2p201

Abstract

The article identifies and analyzes the most important area of the organization &ldquo;Strength through Joy&rdquo; and its contribution to the support of the Hitler regime by industrial workers in Germany. Created by the Nazis under the auspices of the German Labor Front, which replaced the traditional trade unions, this organization made one of the main emphasis on the mass cultivation of tourism on favorable terms in the ranks of the working community. Having become one of the most important areas of social policy in the Third Reich, the tourism activities of the &ldquo;Force through Joy&rdquo; served as one of the effective means of legitimizing Nazi power in the eyes of that part of German society that initially took a hostile position towards them.

Highlights

Over the years since the inception of National Socialism as an institutional and political phenomenon, its extensive historiography arose, numbering more than one thousand scientific publications, numerous aspects of the National Socialist movement, and the domestic and foreign policies of the Hitler political regime continue to attract the close attention of researchers - representatives of the whole range of humanitarian and social sciences
Appeal to the works of the mentioned above two levels of problematic “immersion” - theoretical and methodological and socio-applied - allows you to use the method of genetic reconstruction of the power-political and legal field of Germany in the late 30s of the twentieth century
Encouraging workers to participate in tourism events that were previously accessible only to privileged sections of the population, “Strength through Joy” was to inspire them with a sense of gratitude and duty in relation to the regime that raised their social status

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Introduction

Over the years since the inception of National Socialism as an institutional and political phenomenon, its extensive historiography arose, numbering more than one thousand scientific publications, numerous aspects of the National Socialist movement, and the domestic and foreign policies of the Hitler political regime continue to attract the close attention of researchers - representatives of the whole range of humanitarian and social sciences. At the beginning of the XXI century the obvious relevance of this kind of research was explained by the difficult migration situation that developed in the states of the European Union, which was characterized, inter alia, by the deterioration of the criminal situation in the legal space of a number of European states (Germany, France, Spain, etc.), as well as an increase in political, legal and socio-economic problems stimulating the spread of xenophobic sentiments of indigenous Europeans and , as a result, the strengthening of various kinds of radical parties and other political organizations.

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