Editing Nazi Party (section)

=== Membership outside Germany ===
Party members who lived outside Germany were pooled into the {{lang|de|Auslands-Organisation}} ([[NSDAP/AO]], "Foreign Organization"). The organisation was limited only to so-called "[[Imperial Germans]]" (citizens of the German Empire); and "Ethnic Germans" ({{lang|de|[[Volksdeutsche]]}}), who did not hold German citizenship were not permitted to join.

Under [[Beneš decrees|Beneš decree]] [[Beneš decrees#List of decrees|No. 16/1945 Coll.]], in case of citizens of Czechoslovakia membership of the Nazi Party was punishable by between five and twenty years of imprisonment.

==== ''Deutsche Gemeinschaft'' ====
{{lang|de|Deutsche Gemeinschaft}} was a branch of the Nazi Party founded in 1919, created for Germans with {{lang|de|[[Volksdeutsche]]}} status.{{sfn|Musiał|2009}} It is not to be confused with the post-war right-wing {{lang|de|{{Interlanguage link multi|Deutsche Gemeinschaft|de|3=Deutsche Gemeinschaft (Deutschland)}}}}, which was founded in 1949.

Notable members included:{{sfn|Rosar|1971|p=?}}{{Page needed|date=June 2020}}
* [[Oswald Menghin]] ([[Vienna]])
* [[Hermann Neubacher]] who was responsible for invading Yugoslavia.
* [[Rudolf Much]] ([[Vienna]])
* [[Arthur Seyß-Inquart]] ([[Vienna]])