List of Nazi organisations
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A list of organisations established by or closely associated with the Nazi Party, sortable by their German or English title.
| German name | English name | Description | Date founded |
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| Ahnenerbe Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan... |
Ahnenerbe Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan... |
A think tank Think tank A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax... to research the history of the Aryan race Aryan race The Aryan race is a concept historically influential in Western culture in the period of the late 19th century and early 20th century. It derives from the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a distinctive race or... ; see also List of Ahnenerbe institutes |
1935 |
| Amerikadeutscher Bund | German American Bund | An American Nazi organisation | |
| Anti-Komintern Anti-Komintern Anti-Komintern was a special agency within the Propaganda Ministry under Joseph Goebbels in Nazi Germany charged with administering anti-Soviet propaganda campaign in the mid-nineteen thirties. One of its main activities was to publicize that "Bolshevism was Jewish."... |
Anti-Komintern Anti-Komintern Anti-Komintern was a special agency within the Propaganda Ministry under Joseph Goebbels in Nazi Germany charged with administering anti-Soviet propaganda campaign in the mid-nineteen thirties. One of its main activities was to publicize that "Bolshevism was Jewish."... |
An agency for anti-Soviet propaganda | 1933 |
| Bund Deutscher Mädel | League of German Girls League of German Girls The League of German Girls or League of German Maidens , was the girl's wing of the overall Nazi party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only female youth organization in Nazi Germany.... |
The female branch of the Nazi youth movement | |
| BDM Werk Glaube und Schönheit BDM Werk Glaube und Schönheit The BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit, the BDM Faith and Beauty Society, was founded in 1938 to serve as a tie-in between the work in the League of German Girls and that of the Nazi Frauenschaft... |
League of German Girls Belief and Beauty Society | Organisation for girls aged 17 to 21 | 1938 |
| Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) | German Labour Front German Labour Front The German Labour Front was the National Socialist trade union organisation which replaced the various trade unions of the Weimar Republic after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.... |
Nazi trade union organisation | 1933 |
| Deutsche Christen | German Christians German Christians The Deutsche Christen were a pressure group and movement within German Protestantism aligned towards the antisemitic and Führerprinzip ideological principles of Nazism with the goal to align German Protestantism as a whole towards those principles... |
A Nazi Christian pressure group | 1931 |
| Deutsche Glaubensbewegung | German Faith Movement German Faith Movement The German Faith Movement was closely associated with Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during the Third Reich and sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion based on "immediate experience" of God... |
A non-Christian Nazi religious movement | 1933 |
| Deutscher Radfahrer-Verband Deutscher Radfahrer-Verband The Deutscher Radfahrer-Verband , "German Cycling Association", was the cycling unit of the Nazi Sports Office.-History:Cycling associations existed in Germany since 1884. On that year the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer , "German Cycling Federation", was established in the city of Leipzig... |
German Cycling Association | The cycling unit of the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen The Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen , more rarely "NSRBL", , known as Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen until 1938, was the umbrella organization for sports during the Third Reich.The NSRL was led by the Reichssportführer, who after 1934 was... |
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| Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule The Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule , German Air Transport School, was a covert military-training organization operating as a flying school in Germany... (DVS) |
German Air Transport School | A covert military training organisation | 1925 |
| Freigemeinschaft von Teutonia | Free Society of Teutonia Free Society of Teutonia The Free Society of Teutonia was a German American organisation that was associated with a strong support for Nazism.The FST was formed in 1924 by four German immigrants, including Nazi Party members Fritz and Peter Gissibl, based in Chicago... |
Pro-Nazi German American association | |
| Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft The Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft, or Circle of Friends of the Economy was a group of German industrialists whose aim was to raise funds for racial research within the Third Reich... |
Circle of Friends of the Economy | A group of industrialists who raised funds for Nazi racial research | |
| Freunden von Neue Deutschland | Friends of New Germany Friends of New Germany Friends of New Germany was an organization founded in 1933 in support of the Nazi party in the United States.In May 1933, the Nazi Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess, authorized a German citizen living in the United States, Heinz Spanknobel, to form a Nazi American organization. The result was the creation... |
An American Nazi organisation | 1933 |
| Hitler Jugend | Hitler Youth Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung... |
Male branch of the Nazi youth organisation | 1922 |
| Lebensborn Lebensborn Lebensborn was a Nazi programme set up by SS leader Heinrich Himmler that provided maternity homes and financial assistance to the wives of SS members and to unmarried mothers, and also ran orphanages and relocation programmes for children.Initially set up in Germany in 1935, Lebensborn expanded... |
Fount of Life | An organisation providing financial assistance to the wives of SS members | 1935 |
| Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen The Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen , more rarely "NSRBL", , known as Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen until 1938, was the umbrella organization for sports during the Third Reich.The NSRL was led by the Reichssportführer, who after 1934 was... (NSRL) |
National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise | Nazi organisation for sports | |
| Propagandaministerium | Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda | One of the terms for the main Nazi propaganda organisation | 1933 |
| Schönheit der Arbeit | Beauty of Labour Beauty of Labour The Beauty of Labour was a propaganda organisation of the Nazi government from the period 1934 to its eventual disbandment in 1945. Initially a propaganda machine, the SdA worked bilaterally with its counter-part organisation Strength through Joy to achieve an overall appeasement of the general... |
A propaganda organisation | 1934 |