the national association of local authorities (Gemeinderat). Its places of work are first the factories themselves, to which the Office sends its
lecturers and teachers, and secondly the Volksbildungsstatten of "stations," of which there are some
600 throughout Germany (20 in Berlin alone), and
which are either former Volkshochschulen, buildings
contributed by the municipal authorities, or sections of Party office buildings. Small torres end
country districts which are not able to have such
permanent institutions benefit by visiting lecturers or teachers.
 
 The programs arranged by the Office offer the
following features:
 
 (1)     Single lectures of general political
  or cultural interest, as for instance
  an account of the Battle of Jutland
  (with lantern slides), reports of their
  travels by returned German explorers,etc.
 (2)     Lecture series developing a subject or
  period in German art or history, or a
  typical theme of National Socialist
  policy, as for instance its race,health
  or economic program.
 (3)     Arbeitsgemeinschaften, "working gather"
  ings," compromising 30 or 40 listeners
  from a lecture course, these gatherings
  being really "seminars" in which the