serviceyears death_date death_place birth_place allegiance unit awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
1916 -- 45 3 january 1961 gehrden , germany stargard -lrb- pommern -rrb- , german empire german -lrb- to 1933 -rrb- nazi germany empire -lrb- 1915 to 1918 -rrb- weimar republic grenadier-regiment nr . 9 knights prussian iron cross first class cross of the war merit cross with swords world war i world war ii 20 november 1898 generalmajor bundesarchiv bild 146-2002-005-22a , hasso von wedel.jpg hasso von wedel -lrb- general -rrb-
 hasso von wedel
hasso von wedel -lrb- general -rrb-

hasso von wedel -lrb- 20 november 1898 -- 3 january 1961 -rrb- was a german generalmajor and commander of the wehrmacht propaganda troops during the second world war .
he was directly subordinate to the head of okw operations staff -lrb- wehrmachtführungsstab , wfst . -rrb-
, general alfred jodl .
von wedels propaganda department had to control over the growing number of new propaganda units and served to mediate between them and the reich propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels .
after capitulation of the nazi germany , hasso von wedel was taken prisoner by the us troops on 6 may 1945 and released on 18 may 1946 .
von wedel described his experience on war propaganda in a manuscript between 1957 and 1958 , published after his death under the title `` die propagandatruppen der deutschen wehrmacht . ''
-lrb- propaganda troops of the wermacht -rrb- .
