MEMORANDUM ON STRENGTH THROUGH JOY REPORT          
 
Summary:   This report describes the activities of the German organiz
  tion, Strength through Joy.  This is the recreational branch of
  the Labor Front, Nazi substitute for independent labor unions, 
  and includes twenty million workers.
 
  This orginization operates in six major fields:
 
    1.  The promotion of cheap excursions varying
  from day trips to ocean cruises, including the 
  construction and operation of ocean liners and 
  excursion boats.
 
    2.  The promotion of better working conditions
  and recreational facilities in private industrial
  plants through the voluntary cooperation of plant
  owners.
 
    3.  The promotion of sports including the con-
  struction of facilities, the orginization of com-
  petitions, and instruction.
 
    4.  The furnishing of inexpensive tickets to
  theaters, concerts, festivals etc., the actual
  conduct of such activities, and the promotion of 
  leisure time participation in the arts by workers.
 
    5.  Promotion of popular educational waok for 
  workers in all fields including Nazi indocrination.
 
    6.  The development of a low price automobile.
 
Comment:   The activities described in this report are, for the most 
  part, in themselves desirable and many of them are a part of
  our own leisure time program as carried on through federal,
  local and private agencies and more particularly through the
  WPA recreational projects in this country.  It is the motivation,
  method, and goal that is different.  Here are a few of the more
  obvious differences:
 
 Motivation:  Their leisure time activities are
  intended to compensate workers for
  low wages and divert them from any
  effort to increase them.  Ours are
  intended to assist workers to realize
  their own potentialities and so become
  aware of their conditions and of their 
  own capacity as citizens and workers in
  a democracy to improve them.
 
 Control:     Their program is imposed from above
  on an authoritarian basis with no par-