NSDAP Auslandorganisation: newsletter extracts

The <em>Auslandsorganisation der NSDAP</em> was an umbrella organisation of Nazi party groups abroad, founded in 1930 on the initiative of Bruno Fricke, from Paraguay, and Gregor Strasser, who at the time was in charge of the Nazi Party organisation in Germany. In May 1933 Ernst Wilhelm Bohle became its director. The organisation provided Nazi Party members abroad with political and ideological instructional propaganda material; it also organised travel in the Reich and set up sister-city arrangements. Although the <em>AO</em> proclaimed its strict non-intervention in the affairs of host countries, it used its connections for espionage and political pressure. This collection consists primarily of typescript extracts from the official organ of the <em>NSDAP Auslandsorganisation. </em><span id="sbm"></span>It appears that the extracts were compiled contemporaneously, possibly by the JCIO. The date of the last extract, January 1936, gives some indication as to the date of completion. The choice of extracts is explained in a footnote to a summary of the extracts (840/2) which states that only those articles were chosen which contained particularly interesting items of news and announcements. The subjects include matters of finance, economics, schools and the welfare of German women abroad, and issues of race.<br />When compared to the Mitteilungsblätter themselves, the extracts only represent a small fraction of the printed material.<span id="ebm"></span> Open