Photo Gallery Nazi Tourist Brochures
Baltic Sea idyll with swastika. The Historical Archive for Tourism in Berlin has numerous propaganda brochures for sanctioned vacations under Hitler.
Westerland Beach, on the North Sea island of Sylt, 1937: "Beach games and athletic activities of all kinds -- in particular the old Teutonic art of archery -- will reawaken your joy of living," according to the propaganda text.
The point of the brochures was to sell Germany to foreign tourists, not just to its own citizens.
The Nazi-era "Robert Ley," a luxury cruise ship operated by Kraft durch Freude ("Strength through Joy"). A tourist has probably inked out the swastika on the flag.
Bikini forerunner: German girls on the beach, 1937.
Golfing in the Third Reich.
German laborer, circa 1937, from the cover of "Deutschland" magazine. "Kraft durch Freude" was part of the German Labor Front.
Some brochures were used again after the war, like this one for Westerland Beach on Sylt. Swastikas on the flags have been whited out...
... And some propaganda was for Germans abroad, like "Comrade Italy," a soldier's leisure guide to Berlin's Fascist ally in World War II.
Vacation in lockstep: "We're off to Italy."
Germany in ruins: A 1948 map of Berlin shows the results of Hitler's war.
