![NSDAP membership badge.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelbild-4-300x225.jpg)
The Geneva NSDAP
At the beginning of the 1930s, Geneva was deeply divided between right and left. These were ideal conditions for the formation of a local branch of the NSDAP.
![Protest rally against fascism in Geneva, 9 November 1932.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/unruhen-in-genf-300x195.jpg)
![Léon Nicole in a 1933 photograph.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/leon-nicole-231x300.jpg)
![Aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer’s view of Geneva, 1934.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/genf-30er-300x192.jpg)
Geneva NSDAP keeps the pressure on
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Eugen Link’s activities were meticulously monitored. Swiss Federal Archives
![Enquiry to the Geneva police concerning the signage on the association’s premises on the Rue des Charmilles.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/gesuch-300x222.jpg)
![Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels (centre) in Geneva in 1933 at the World Disarmament Conference, which took place under the aegis of the League of Nations.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/goebbels-genf-300x204.jpg)
![Portrait of Georges Oltramare, 1931.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/georges-227x300.jpg)
![The Geneva police observed the activities of the local NSDAP group very closely.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/protokoll-1-203x300.jpg)