Nazi Party Office of Racial Policy
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The Office of Racial Policy was a department of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that was founded for "unifying and supervising all indoctrination and propaganda work in the field of population and racial politics"[This quote needs a citation]. It began in 1933 as the Nazi Party Office for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare (German: Aufklärungsamt für Bevölkerungspolitik und Rassenpflege der NSDAP). By 1935, it had been renamed to the Nazi Party Office of Racial Policy (German: Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP or RPA).[1]
| Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP ( Nazi party |
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Purpose
The main role of the RPA was to oversee the production and maintenance of
Methods
All Nazi Party racial information required the approval of Gross' office before publication. The department dealt with all measures concerning the field of
The RPA produced Neues Volk, a monthly magazine aimed at a general readership rather than towards a specialist audience.[5][6] But while containing articles on topics such as travel tips, its central theme was the promotion of eugenics and ethnic consciousness.[7] Other publications created by the office included a ten-point plan to marriage. The guidelines, rather than focusing on love, stressed the ideal criteria for marriage in the Nazi state was the consideration of race and health. The pamphlet urged investigation of the ancestry of potential mates, and that the hereditarily fit should not remain single, concluding with the injunction to hope for many children.[8] Other works included "Can You Think Racially?" and "Peasantry between Yesterday and Today".[9]
The RPA also created traveling exhibitions that presented the ideal Aryan type as unchanging in contrast to subhuman types.[10] In its first year, the office had published 14 pamphlets for racial education.[11] This led to the establishment of intensive training courses to create ethnic educators. More than a thousand Sturmabteilung personnel and recent medical school graduates were indoctrinated each year on Nazi racial topics until 1945.[9]
See also
- Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle
- Racial policy of Nazi Germany
- SS Race and Settlement Main Office
References
- ISBN 0-396-06577-5.
- ^ "National Socialist Racial Policy: A Speech to German Women"
- ^ Koonz, p. 106.
- ^ a b Koonz, p. 110.
- ^ "Neues Volk"
- ^ Koonz, p. 117.
- ^ Koonz, p. 117-9.
- ISBN 0-393-02030-4
- ^ a b Claudia, p. 123.
- ^ Koonz, p. 122.
- ISBN 0-674-01172-4.
External links
- NSDAP on cine-holocaust