NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy

The office lost much of its meaning after the start of World War II, and was dissolved after the reversal of Nazi Germany's military victories in 1943.

After the purge of the SA in the Night of the Long Knives, it was reformed as the Colonial Political Office in 1934, with Franz Ritter von Epp as its leader.

From then on, its task was to provide clear directives and policy guidelines for the party and its press in regard to every colonial, political and economic problems.

Its headquarters was located at the party seat of the NSDAP in Munich, but the Planning Department was moved to Berlin in 1936, to improve co-operation with the Colonial Section of the Foreign Office.

Epp's request for his office to be assigned a role as the central state body for the formulation of colonial policy was denied by Adolf Hitler in 1938.

With the coming end of the Second World War and the resulting victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany, the office swiftly lost any degree of importance it might have had.