A German Labour Front Kdf "E.s. Robert Len" Tally Ribbon

(Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Kraft durch Freude): Black rayon with machine-woven gold-coloured celleon threading, inscribed "E.S. Robert Len" in Gothic script, flanked by the red, white and gold embroidered Nazi flag at the left and the red, white and gold embroidered German Labour Front KdF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Kraft durch Freude) flag at the right, 32 mm x 592 mm, the right end having been lost to time but the KdF flag remains intact, scattered small tears present throughout the remainder of the ribbon, better than very fine.

Footnote: The Kraft durch Freude (German for Strength through Joy, abbreviated KdF) was a large state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was a part of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), the national German labour organization at that time. Set up as a tool to promote the advantages of National Socialism to the people, it soon became the world's largest tourism operator of the 1930s. KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide, by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses. This was underscored by having cruises with passengers of mixed classes and having them, regardless of social status, draw lots for allocation of cabins. Another less ideological goal was to boost the German economy by stimulating the tourist industry out of its slump from the 1920s. It was quite successful up until the outbreak of the Second World War. By 1934, over two million Germans had participated on a KdF trip. By 1939, the reported numbers lay around twenty-five million people. The organization essentially collapsed in 1939, and several projects, such as the massive Prora holiday resort, were never completed.