[The Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) organization] provided members of the Labor Front...with dirt-cheap vaction[s]. [Dr. Robert] Ley built two 25,000 ton ships...and chartered ten others to handle ocean cruises for Kraft durch Freude. This writer once participated in such a cruise; though life aboard was organized by Nazi leaders to a point of excruciation (for him), the German workers seemed to have a good time. (265)

Boy, from having your picnics interrupted by marching Hitler Youth to taking "excruciatingly" organized sea cruises, "Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37" (the title of this chapter) was hell for "this writer," huh? The shipbuilder's daughter was not the only one "compromised" by the Nazi regime.