The NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude, the National Socialist
Organization Strength through Joy, was a subset of the Deutsche
Arbeitsfront, the national German labor organization. All
members of the DAF were also members of the KdF, and as
basically any worker was a part of the DAF, so too were they in
the Kraft durch Freude. The KdF was essentially designed for the
purpose of providing organized leisure for the German work
force. Interestingly enough, the DAF calculated that the work
year contained 8,760 hours of which only 2,100 were spent
working, 2,920 hours spent sleeping, leaving 3,740 hours of free
time. Thus the driving concept behind the KdF was organized
"relaxation for the collection of strenght for more work." The
KdF strived to achieve this goal of organized leisure by
providing activities such as trips, cruises, concerts, and
cultural activities for German workers. These events were
specifically directed towards the working class, and it was
through the KdF that the NSDAP hoped to bring to the