National Socialist Factory Cell Organization

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The Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (Nazi Factory Cell Organization) was an organization of workplace groups for the Nazi Party formed in 1931. The NSBO was a key tool the Nazis used to destroy unions in Germany. Most functions of the NSBO were taken over by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront in 1933. Many NSBO leaders were murdered in the 1934 Night of the Long Knives, wherein Hitler purged some more left-leaning leaders, who favoured nationalization and total socialist government of the economy, within the Nazi party.

Leaders of this Nazi workers' organisation (created in the 1920s) expected to play a major role once Hitler gained power. Indeed, many were imprisoned as 'Marxist gangsters'. The organisation declined in significance, as DAF 'represented' workers.