The Swastika Outside Germany

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The Swastika Outside Germany is a book by Donald M. McKale. It is a history of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei Auslands-Organisation (NSDAP/AO, National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization), an institution created by the Third Reich as a network of Nazi groups outside Germany.

It was published in 1977 by Kent State University Press as a 288-page hardcover (ISBN 0-87338-209-9).

[edit] Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Early Origins of the Nazi Party in Foreign Countries

2. Hans Nieland and the Auslands-Abteilung, 1930-1933

Creation of the Auslands-Abteilung
Small Party Branches in the Americas and Europe
1932: Hard Work and Frustration
Authoritarian Anarchy: Nieland and Lower Level Party Politics

3. Ernst Bohle and the Expansion and Administration of the Party Groups Abroad, 1933-1934

Hess and the Emergence of Bohle
The AO and its Administrative Structure
Institutional Warfare and Personal Ambitions
Organized Confusion: The Party in the Americas and the Far East
Minor Successes in Egypt and Europe

4. The AO: Mixing Party Affairs with Diplomacy, 1935-1937

Anti-Communism in Latin America and the Bund in the United States
Failures: German Schools Abroad, South Africa, and Switzerland
Party Attaches and the Foreign Ministry
Spain and Austria
Bohle's Appointment at the Wilhelmstraße

5. The Threat of War and the Foreign Reactions Against the Party Groups Abroad, 1937-1939

The Landesgruppen: Organizations Against the Jews
Anti-Comintern Politics and Criticism of the Nazintern
Austria and South Tyrol
The Debacle in the United States and Latin America
Party Groups in Eastern Europe: Preparation for German Expansion

6. War is "A Patriotic Duty Taken for Granted," 1939-1945

Evacuations, Reprisals, and Sacrifice
Invasions, Intelligence Work, and the "New Order"
Hess's Flight and Bohle's Alliance with Himmler and Ribbentrop
The Myth of Victory

7. Epilogue: Pleading Guilty at Nuremberg

  • Appendices
Diagram of the Auslands-Organisation, January 1945
The Auslands-Organisation and the Nazi Party Groups in Foreign Countries 1933-1945
Major Newspapers of the Auslands-Organisation (1937)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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