KDF Taschen Atlas (Pocket Atlas) 1930's Kraft Durch Freude, (Strength Through Joy) Pocket Atlas-This is a small pocket atlas that contains maps of Germany and other parts of Europe. It shows the original price for 20 pfennigs. The KDF was a state run leisure organization that was instituted to build morale with workers. They planned cruises, and other events for people. This book contains 48 pages and is in very good condition.History: Kraft durch Freude translates to 'Strength through Joy', (abbreviated KdF) was a state-operated leisure organization in Germany. It was a part of the German Labor Front (DAF), the national German labor organization at that time. Set up as a tool to promote the advantages of National Socialism to the people, it had become the world's largest tourism operator by the 1930s. The KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses. It also sought to bolster the German tourist industry, something it did successfully up until the outbreak of World War II. By 1934, over two million Germans had participated in a KdF trip; by 1939 the reported numbers lay around 25 million people. With the outbreak of war in 1939, the organization was mothballed.