The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

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

Biography

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.

"The authors provide a striking illustration of the internal squabbles and rivalries within the Germany of the Nazi years that, clearly, were destined to be endless if they had not been cut short by defeat in war.　 Jacobsen and Smith’s book offers a good glimpse into the various country organizations of the AO and their problems, especially in South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. The question of German foreign service personnel becoming members of the AO, as well as the AO’s surveillance of German diplomats, receives the attention it deserves." --Journal of Modern History