Foreign Office of Nazi Germany

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foreign affairs ministry government ministry institution of Nazi Germany

The Foreign Office of Nazi Germany was the regime’s diplomatic ministry, responsible for managing foreign relations and often complicit in implementing its expansionist and genocidal policies.

Aliases (7)

German Foreign Office ×2
Reich Foreign Office ×2
German Foreign Office Jewish Affairs desk ×1
Nazi German diplomatic corps ×1
Nazi Party foreign policy apparatus ×1
Reich Ministry of Foreign Affairs ×1
diplomatic corps of Nazi Germany ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	foreign affairs ministry → government ministry → institution of Nazi Germany →
archivesLocation	Political Archive of the German Foreign Office →
complicitIn	Holocaust → Nazi expansionist policies → genocidal policies in Eastern Europe → occupation policies in Europe → persecution and deportation of Jews →
cooperatedWith	Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany → Reich Main Security Office → SS →
country	German Reich → Nazi Germany →
dissolvedAsResultOf	defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 →
endTime	1945 →
followedBy	Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Republic of Germany) → Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany →
headquartersLocation	Berlin → Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin →
ideology	Nazism →
jurisdiction	Nazi Germany →
legalStatusAfterWar	subject to denazification →
locatedInTime	1933–1945 →
minister	Joachim von Ribbentrop → Konstantin von Neurath →
nativeName	Auswärtiges Amt →
notableEmployee	Franz Rademacher → Martin Luther (Nazi official) →
officeHolder	Ernst von Weizsäcker → Joachim von Ribbentrop → Konstantin von Neurath →
participatedIn	World War II →
precededBy	Foreign Office of the Weimar Republic →
responsibleFor	diplomatic relations of Nazi Germany → foreign policy of Nazi Germany → management of embassies and consulates → negotiation of international treaties →
roleIn	administration of occupied territories’ diplomatic affairs → justification of German aggression → propaganda abroad →
shortName	AA →
significantEvent	coordination of Axis diplomacy → diplomatic preparation for German territorial expansion → participation in negotiations leading to the Munich Agreement →
startTime	1933 →
subordinateTo	Adolf Hitler → Government of Nazi Germany →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle → Joachim von Ribbentrop → Martin Luther (Nazi official) ("Reich Ministry of Foreign Affairs") →	employer
Franz Rademacher ("German Foreign Office Jewish Affairs desk") →	affiliation
Wannsee Conference →	attendeeOrganization
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler ("Reich Foreign Office") →	hasPart
Martin Luther (Nazi official) ("German Foreign Office") →	memberOf
Martin Luther (diplomat) ("Nazi German diplomatic corps") →	partOf
Auswärtiges Amt ("Reich Foreign Office") →	precededBy
AA ("Nazi Party foreign policy apparatus") →	relatedTo
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia authorities ("German Foreign Office") →	subordinateTo
AA ("diplomatic corps of Nazi Germany") →	usedBy