The Auslandorganisation der NSDAP (foreign agency of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) was established in 1934 as an offshoot of the foreign propaganda machine, the Auslandsabteilung, which had been set up previously in 1931. Its mission was to ideologically educate party members and Reichsdeutsche (Germans nationals) abroad and make them immune to anti-German propaganda.

The Auslandorganisation also became involved in political issues and espionage and was banned in many countries in 1938-1939.

It was active in the Netherlands under the new name of the Reichsdeutsche Gemeinschaft (German Community) and was essentially a front for the NSDAP in the Netherlands.

• K. Happe, Deutsche in den Niederlanden 1918-1945. Eine historische Untersuchung zu nationalen Identifkationsangeboten im Prozess der Konstruktion individueller Identitäten (Siegen 2004), webpublicatie, zie:  deposit.ddb.de.
• K. Krieger, ‘Auslandorganisation der NSDAP’, in: W. Benz, H. Graml en H. Weiß ed., Enzyklopädie  des Nationalsozialismus (München 1997) 283.
• L. de Jong, Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog Deel I Voorspel (Den Haag 1969) 506-518.