Enemy Intelligence Department

The enemy intelligence department was part of higher staffs from division level in the Prussian - German army and the Wehrmacht . The leader of the enemy intelligence department was the Third General Staff Officer (Ic). The enemy intelligence department was divided into five groups with different tasks:

• Group I: Enemy
• Group II: Operational command of subordinate units of the defense
• Group III: letter censorship
• Group IV: Secret Field Police
• Group V: Propaganda

literature

• Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl (ed.): Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 , p. 123.
• Herbert Schottelius , Gustav-Adolf Caspar: The organization of the army 1933-1939. In: Hans Meier-Welcker: German military history in six volumes 1648-1939 . Volume VII, pp. 333 and 367.