Franz Xaver Schwarz was a high ranking German Nazi Party official who served as Reichsschatzmeister of the Party throughout most of its existence. He was also one of the highest ranking members of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
Schwarz in 1939
Nuremberg Rally 1936. Hermann Göring is talking with Joseph Goebbels and Franz Xaver Schwarz. To the left of Goebbels is Robert Ley, who along with Göring, was charged at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials with crimes against humanity.
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party, existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric; it was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders. By the 1930s, the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. The party had little popular support until the Great Depression, when worsening living standards and widespread unemployment drove Germans into political extremism.
NSDAP membership book
Mein Kampf in its first edition cover
Nazis during the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich
Hitler with Nazi Party members in 1930