Here it is,
Paul's awesome flag! Or, one like that, anyways .. Attached pics 3, 4 and 5 .. Waving from cordage of the boat "
Robert Ley", already talked about
here. All 3 scans, from the very pretty book "
Nach Dem Glücklichen Inseln". The book tells of KdF-holidaytravels to Madeira and Tenerife. Travels to Madeira and the Canaries, were part of the KdF-Atlantikfahrten, but more on those in another post sometime. The book has only and very many very beautiful full-colour pictures, it gives so much info, and tells fun things and also thrilling stories about Kriegsmarine escorts and so on. These were necesary sometimes, even if no war was goin on overthere at that time. These Madeira/Tenerife Atlantikfahrten got postponed a year because the war broke out.
Madeira, is part of Portugal, and tourism still makes this island the most rich district of Portugal. During world war II, Portugal was neutral, because it kept alive a treaty from 1386 named Treaty of Windsor, this was a peace-alliance between England and Portugal. Tenerife, is part of the Canary Islands, and the biggest island. The Canaries are part of Spain, but, autonomous, and also neutral during world war II.
Churchill and Hitler both of them made invasionplans for the Canary Islands. Churchill made plans in case Spain joined Germany and would invade thruogh Gibraltar. Hitler made plans to take the Canaries, these plans had codename Felix, but the plans never got reality, because Germany needed Spain for this invasion and Spain never actully joined Germany/the Axis forces. Spain was very weak after the civil war. Here we touch
Legion Condor, and thats way beyond this KdF-topic.
See the 2nd attached shot. The book has a nice DAF-stamp, and dedication in it. It starts with "PG", meaning
Parteigenosse, so, the dedication is in english; "
Fellow party member Friedrich Lüttich, to his today's birthday, with best wishes", the signature, unfortunatly, unable to read. The stamp is of DAF, and reads "
Ortswaltung Bayerische Flugzeugwerke Regensburg". And the Gau,
Bayerische Ostmark. After 1942, this Gau was called Bayreuth, so this is allright, if you look at the written date, 25.4 1940. There is also, a DAF function title, "Orts-. u. Betriebsobmann.". Text, a bit faint, but, thats what it says. This Flugzeugwerke Regensburg is actualy is
Messerschmit GmbH.
The
KdF-Gauwart in Bayerische Ostmark was
Max Dümmler. NSDAP Gauleiter at the date the book was given was
Fritz Wächtler. The stamp tells much info like Ortswaltung and the function title. Ortswaltung, is something like local governance. And Ortsobmann is some sortof local leader. Betriebsobmann, a company leader, but for section DAF, not the company itself! How this is connected to the German organisation of things, is so very very great explained actuly in the book underneath the book "Nach Den Glücklichen Inseln" in the background. This is the book "Du Bist Sofort Im Bilde". This tells all things 3rd Reich; ranks, Kragenspiegel and whatever insignia, of SA/NSKK, Wehrmacht, police, flags, evrything, organisations, people, laws, views, history, future, politics, culture, so yes also
Kraft durch Freude. You can see the page there, that tells "
Sorgen Sie mir dafür, daß das Deutsche Volk wieder lachen lernt". And that was the assignment that Hitler gave Robert Ley, and this was what started Kraft durch Freude. The book is more in detail
here. Truly very awesome that book! It answers many things you want to know! Almost you need no forums anymore for many things *LOL* I also saw that this Glücklichen-Inseln-book that shows Paul's flag is in detail
here, same site, if you're intrested. See how beautiful that book is! Fun, no?
Enjoy,
KR
