Fordism, Mass Tourism and the Third Reich: The "Strength through Joy" Seaside Resort as an Index Fossil

Spode, Hasso

doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0107

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“…Italy employed the same approach to "instrumentalising" tourism in its other provinces (South Tyrol) and colonies (Albania, Libya). In 1933, Nazi Germany established a similar programme or section called Strength through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF), 11 which organised holidays and sports activities 12 and where a considerable potential for spreading innovations in tourism could be seen. The movement's aim was also to contribute to the growing popularity of group travel.…”

Section: Tourism As a Regime Propaganda Toolmentioning

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Tourism and fascism. Tourism development on the east Italian border.

Kavrečič

2020

PNZ

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The paper is focused on the study of tourism development in the Italian region Venezia Giulia. The territory under discussion represents an interesting but unexplored study field in historiography, where tourism development, during the period between the two world wars, is at the forefront. My aim is to study the interrelation between political regime confirmation and national discourse within the tourism development sector in its various forms. The intent is to study how tourist destinations (“old” and “new”) managed to adjust to changed political structure within a growing totalitarian system – fascism. Different typologies of tourist destinations will be taken into consideration.

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Section: Tourism As a Regime Propaganda Toolmentioning

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Tourism and fascism. Tourism development on the east Italian border.

Kavrečič

2020

PNZ

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“…Toda la política territorial nacionalsocialista, de hecho, puede leerse como una metáfora siniestra y extrema de la desposesión fordista de la experiencia, desde el concepto de Normalstadt (ciudad normal o ciudad estándar) de Carl Culemann -que bebe, como el resto de iniciativas de arquitectos del NSDAP, de las fuentes de Weimaral verdoppelter Mensch (hombre redoblado) que habita la "ciudad-paisaje" de Rudolf Schwarz -un sujeto alienado como hombre doble, con una "vida del trabajo" y una "vida del hogar"-. Como indicaba Robert Ley, director del Frente Alemán del Trabajo, sindicato único de la Alemania nazi, Hitler había creado un nuevo estilo de vida (Spode, 2004). Esto era cierto tanto para el alemán ario -el "sujeto normal"-, que Himmler definiera como un Siedler (colono) que debía encontrar su Lebensraum (espacio vital) en los territorios ocupados (Gutschow, 2001), como para los Asozialen (asociales), que llegarían a ser todos aquellos que no se ajustaran a la norma de sujeto establecida y cuyo destino sería servir como mano de obra forzada o esclava en la producción, entre otros, de materiales de construcción y la ejecución de las Siedlungen (Bologna, 1999).…”

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La ciudad y el eclipse de la experiencia: Notas para una historia crítica de la ordenación territorial

Buitrago

2008

Polis

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Resumen: La condición "líquida" de la ciudad contemporánea, en la que asistimos a un eclipse de la experiencia individual y colectiva y a una pérdida de los marcos de referencia social, no es más que la instancia última de un proceso histórico de desposesión hegemónica de las formas de existencia autónomas de la multitud, operado mediante una revolución permanente del espacio-tiempo social. En dicho proceso la ordenación del territorio y la planificación urbana han jugado un papel protagonista. El presente artículo analiza los motivos y dimensiones de esta dinámica en una perspectiva teórica, identifica su evolución histórica a través de una serie de casos y esboza el escenario de conflicto que se abre ante una multitud postfordista que quiera reapropiarse de manera autónoma del espacio-tiempo social y el territorio. Palabras clave: ordenación del territorio, desposesión, multitud, experiencia, biopolítica.

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“…8 However, the efforts to extend tourism to wider social constituencies met with limited success until after the Second World War. It was only around the mid-twentieth century -when the forty-hour, five-day workweek and paid annual holidays of at least two weeks gradually became established -that holidaying came to be understood as a right of citizenship bound up within a European standard of living and that the "travel" of leisured elites was complemented by a rationalised, modern "tourism" for the masses.…”

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Campsites as Utopias? A Socio-Spatial Reading of the Post-War Holiday Camp in Belgium, 1950s to 1970s

Gosseye¹,

Heynen²

2013

HCM

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This paper contrasts the objectives that underlie the development of government-funded holiday camps for family vacations in Belgium with the socio-spatial practices of their initial users. Drawing on oral history, archival material, photographs and site plans, we argue that holidaymakers did not just experience the holiday camp as an environment where they could reconnect with their family and pursue authentic experiences in close contact with nature -as their initiators had intended -but that they also embraced these sites as places where they could recreate a romanticised version of "traditional" community life and experiment with facets of a middle-class, modern suburban ideal. To substantiate our narrative, we focus on two holiday camps in the Campine Region: Zilvermeer and Hengelhoef.

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Fordism, Mass Tourism and the Third Reich: The "Strength through Joy" Seaside Resort as an Index Fossil

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Tourism and fascism. Tourism development on the east Italian border.

Tourism and fascism. Tourism development on the east Italian border.

La ciudad y el eclipse de la experiencia: Notas para una historia crítica de la ordenación territorial

Campsites as Utopias? A Socio-Spatial Reading of the Post-War Holiday Camp in Belgium, 1950s to 1970s

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