OHL foreign department

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The foreign department of the OHL ( OHLA ) was a propaganda department of the German Supreme Army Command (OHL) to influence the Allied press during the First World War .

Origin and development

The department was renamed in July 1918 from the "Military Office at the Foreign Office" (MAA) founded two years earlier. This was affiliated with the news department of the Foreign Office and was supposed to ensure the influence of the OHL on the foreign propaganda of the AA. The OHL itself had a war press office, which was only responsible for evaluating the foreign press. In January 1917, the MAA was de facto placed under the control of the OHL. Its leaders were Lieutenant Colonel, later Colonel Hans von Haeften and from September 1918 Major Edwin von Stülpnagel .

The department became a nucleus for the young conservatives . Your colleague Arthur Moeller van den Bruck later coined the term “ Third Reich ”.

Members

literature

  • Joachim Petzold : pioneer of German fascism. The young conservatives in the Weimar Republic (= Small Library. Vol. 135). 2nd, revised edition. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7609-0781-4 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wilhelm Deist: Military, State and Society. Studies on the Prussian-German military history. (= Vol. 34 of contributions to military history ), Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-486-55920-6 , p. 142 f.