Nazi Party Office of Racial Policy

NSDAP Office of Racial Policy
Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (German)
Parteiadler
Office overview
Formed17 November 1933 (1933-11-17)
(as Nazi Party Office for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare)
Dissolved8 May 1945 (1945-05-08)
Office executive
Parent OfficeNazi party

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]

Walter Gross was tasked with creating the office, and remained its leader until his death at the end of the Second World War in April 1945.[2]

  1. ^ Robert Cecil, The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology p. 115. ISBN 0-396-06577-5.
  2. ^ "National Socialist Racial Policy: A Speech to German Women"