Social policies like the eight-hour work day and collective bargaining rights made it possible for the working and middle classes to pursue leisure-time activities on a larger scale than ever before. Kolberg (today Kołobrzeg, Poland) was one of the largest seaside resort towns on the Baltic coast and drew many visitors from Berlin.
Source: Afternoon on the pier in Kolberg, July 1930. Photographer: unknown. BA, Aktuelle-Bilder-Centrale, Georg Pahl, image 102-10018, available online on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-10018,_Kolberg,_Seesteg_und_Kurhaus.jpg
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