Editing Nazi Party (section)

=== Affiliated organisations ===
Certain nominally independent organisations had their own legal representation and own property, but were supported by the Nazi Party. Many of these associated organisations were labour unions of various professions. Some were older organisations that were nazified according to the {{lang|de|Gleichschaltung}} policy after the 1933 takeover.
* Reich League of German Officials (union of civil servants, predecessor to [[German Civil Service Federation]])
* [[German Labour Front]] (DAF)
* [[National Socialist German Doctors' League]]
* National Socialist League for the Maintenance of the Law (NSRB, 1936–1945, earlier National Socialist German Lawyers' League)
* [[NSKOV|National Socialist War Victim's Care]] (NSKOV)
* [[National Socialist Teachers League]] (NSLB)
* [[National Socialist People's Welfare]] (NSV)
* [[Reich Labour Service]] (RAD)
* [[German Faith Movement]]
* [[German Colonial League]] (RKB)
* [[German Red Cross]]
* [[Kyffhäuserbund|Kyffhäuser League]]
* [[TENO|Technical Emergency Relief]] (TENO)
* [[Reichsbund der Kinderreichen|Reich's Union of Large Families]]
* [[Reichsluftschutzbund]] (RLB)
* [[Reichskolonialbund]] (RKB)
* [[Bund Deutscher Osten]] (BDO)
* [[German American Bund]]

The employees of large businesses with international operations such as [[Deutsche Bank]], [[Dresdner Bank]], and [[Commerzbank]] were mostly party members.{{sfn|Simpson|2002|pp=149, 257, 299}} All German businesses abroad were also required to have their own Nazi Party {{lang|de|Ausland-Organization}} liaison men, which enabled the party leadership to obtain updated and excellent intelligence on the actions of the global corporate elites.{{sfn|Farrell|2008|p=?}}{{Page needed|date=June 2020}}