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“Don’t you fancy joining […] and being as young and happy as you once were?” teases a 1935 article in the Nazi magazine Arbeitertum, before going on to promise: “In the fresh air and sun, your body will stretch out and enjoy its freedom. […] You will be strong and happy, healthy and powerful […] and you will be rewarded with a new and enriched attitude towards life.”1 These fine promises advertised a sports course offered by KdF’s Sports Department.2 The department was responsible for arranging sports and games for the German population and as such was one part of a large network of Nazi sport organizations, a network that grew out of the regime’s obsession with strong and healthy bodies.3
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Timpe, J. (2017). Volksgemeinschaft at Play. In: Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53193-3_2
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