Amt Rosenberg (ARo, Rosenberg Office) was an official body for
cultural policy
Cultural policy is the government actions, laws and programs that regulate, protect, encourage and financially (or otherwise) support activities related to the arts and creative sectors, such as painting, sculpture, music, dance, literature, and ...
and
surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as ...
within the
Nazi party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor ...
, headed by
Alfred Rosenberg. It was established in 1934 under the name of ''Dienststelle Rosenberg'' (''DRbg'', Rosenberg Department), with offices at Margarethenstraße 17 in Berlin, to the west of
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz (, ''Potsdam Square'') is a public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, Reichstag (Bundestag, German Parliament Building), and ...
.
Due to the long official name of Rosenberg's function, ''Beauftragter des Führers für die gesamte geistige und weltanschauliche Erziehung der NSDAP'' ("Führer's representative for the entire intellectual and ideological education of the Nazi Party"), the short description ''Reichsüberwachungsamt'' "Reich surveillance office" was used alongside,
[Jan-Pieter Barbian: ''Literaturpolitik im »Dritten Reich«''. Institutionen, Kompetenzen, Betätigungsfelder, Nördlingen 1995, S. 276, .] also shortened simply to ''Überwachungsamt'' "surveillance office".
In post-World War II historiography, "Amt Rosenberg" is also used in a wider sense as a term for a number of official functions of Rosenberg which he held between 1928 and 1945.
[Reinhard Bollmus: ''Amt Rosenberg''. In: W. Benz (ed.): ''Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus''. 5., aktualisierte und erweiterte Aufl., dtv, Stuttgart 2007, 400-402, .]
These included the ''
Außenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP'' (APA "NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs", including the ''
Nordische Gesellschaft'' ("Nordic League")), ''
Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur'' (KfdK "Militant League for German Culture"), ''NS-Kulturgemeinde'' ("NS-Cultural Community") (including the ''
Kraft durch Freude'' ("Strength Through Joy") and ''Deutsche Bühne'' ("German Stage") theatres), ''
Hohe Schule der NSDAP'' ("Advanced School of the NSDAP") and ''
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg'' (ERR "Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce"), an organisation devoted to acquiring and stealing art objects across the occupied territories of the Reich.
Not included in the term as used by Bollmus (2007) is the ''
Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete'' (RMfdbO "Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories"), because it was a government office, not a party office.
See also
*''
Ahnenerbe''
*
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (, RMVP), also known simply as the Ministry of Propaganda (), controlled the content of the press, literature, visual arts, film, theater, music and radio in Nazi Germany.
The ministr ...
*
Nazi loot
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda was a tool of the Nazi Party in Germany from its earliest days to the end of the regime in May 1945 at the end of World War II. As the party gained power, the scope and efficacy of its propaganda grew and permeated an increasing amou ...
*
NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy
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NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs
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NSDAP Office of Military Policy
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NSDAP Office of Racial Policy
References
* Reinhard Bollmus: ''Das Amt Rosenberg und seine Gegner''. Studien zum Machtkampf im nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftssystem. Stuttgart 1970
DNB(2nd ed., München / Oldenbourg 2006, .)
* Raimund Baumgärtner: ''Weltanschauungskampf im Dritten Reich''. Die Auseinandersetzung der Kirchen mit Alfred Rosenberg. Mainz 1977, .
* Michael H. Kater: ''Das Ahnenerbe der SS: 1933-1945''. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturpolitik des Dritten Reiches. Stuttgart 1974. (4th ed., München 2005, .)
* George Leaman: ''Deutsche Philosophen und das »Amt Rosenberg«''. In: Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.):'' »Die Besten Geister der Nation«''. Philosophie und Nationalsozialismus, Vienna 1994, 41-65, .
* Jan-Pieter Barbian: ''Literaturpolitik im »Dritten Reich«''. Institutionen, Kompetenzen, Betätigungsfelder, Nördlingen 1995, .
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