ceeded in attracting large groups to these tours.
Strength through Joy claims that by methods such
as these it will eventually produce a new creatively expressive generation which will repair the artistic deficiency with which National Socialism is
so often taxed.
 
 The Office for Popular Education is active
in disseminating literature and has special traveling libraries contained in easily handled cases
which are sent about the countryside to small towns
or placed in the crews quarters of German ships.
As described in a Strength through Joy pamphlet, the
various classes of literature thus disseminated is
interesting, particularly the order in which they
are listed: National Socialist political books,
war books, historical works, books on farming, adventure
and travel, and society novels. Strength through Joy
also encourages the inhabitants of small towns to write
their own history through the ingenious method of starting a village record-book in which are entered everyday occurrences and notable events, usually written
by the local Party leaders or school teachers. Incidentally, all Strength through Joy work in outlying
villages is adapted to the aim of checking the migration of country people to the cities. Very few films
of city life, which might appear glamorous to the imagination of younger members of the family, are Shown,
and everything is done to render and portray country
life as being the more attractive and happier.