The Nazi Party/Foreign Organization was a branch of the Nazi Party and the 43rd and only non-territorial Gau of the Party. In German, the organization is referred to as NSDAP/AO, "AO" being the abbrev
Finnish Hitler Jugend saluting a memorial for German combatants of Finnish Civil War in Helsinki.
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
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Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was the Gauleiter of the Foreign Organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party from 1934 until 1945. Bohle was the only defendant in the Subsequent Nuremberg trials
Nazi Party/Foreign Organization
…was assigned to Hans Nieland, who resigned from office on May 8, 1933, because he had become head of the Hamburg police authority; he was replaced by Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. Only actual citizens of the German Reich with a German passport could become members of the AO. Persons of German descent, ethnic Germans (German…
Bohle in Allied custody c. 1947
Bohle on trial, 1947