R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939 The first two chapters of the Nazi Party in Eretz Israel were established in Sharona and Jaffa in March 1933. Karl Ruf from Haifa set the chapters up, but during most of the time that the Nazi Party was active Cornelius Schwarz, from the Templar settlement, served as head of the party. In the summer of 1933 the party numbered 42 members, and in 1934, their numbers reached 239 (the largest chapter was in Jerusalem with 67 members). That same year, there were already active Nazi youth organizations, such as the Bund deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls), the Hitler-Jugend and Jungvolk, as well as Deutsche Arbeitsfront (the German Labor Front - the Nazi trade union organization). At the end of 1935, there were 82 members in the Nazi party. After the outbreak of World War II, the British disbanded the Nazi Party in Mandatory Palestine. Nazi Party office correspondence, and that of related organizations (such as the Bund deutsche Familie- German Family League), circulars and propaganda pamphlets are included in the documentation. A large part of the correspondence and the documents deal with racial matters and include correspondence with the Nazi Party racial offices in Germany and Austria, primarily with the Sippenamt (Genealogical Office - Center for the National German Family) in Vienna. Some of the files deal with applications to this office to clarify the Jewish origin of various people.