The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

by Hans-Adolph Jacobsen, Arthur L. Smith Jr.

Overview

The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who presumed that with the assumption of power in 1933 total state control was theirs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415543200
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2012
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans-Adolf Jacobsen has authored and edited numerous books on Germany and World War II.

Arthur L. Smith, Jr., was a professor of history for over thirty years at California State University, Los Angeles, and is author of numerous books and articles on German history.

Table of Contents

IntroductionA Source of FundingThe Gau Ausland (AO) and Ernst Wilhelm BohleInternal Politics and Germans AbroadConsolidating Power and Growing InfluenceForeign Policy ConcernsThe AO and the Foreign Office (AA)Bohle and RibbentropA Worldwide NetworkAdministrative ProblemsA Case Study: Germans in the United StatesThe Outbreak of WarNew ResponsibilitiesCollapseTrial and JudgmentNotesBibliographyIndex