Nationalsozialistischer Führungsoffizier

The Nationalsozialisticher Führungsstab (National Socialist leadership staff) of the OKW was created by Adolf Hitler's directive of the 22 December 1943[1] and was put under the overall control of General Hermann Reinecke.

The goal was to instill ideological conviction in order to reinforce combat morale and turn the tide of the war.

NSFO were regular Wehrmacht officers, but they had to be approved by a commission created by the head of the Nazi Party Chancellery Martin Bormann.

Hauptbereichsleiter Ruder explained in a speech that, in the opinion of the Party Chancellery, the instruction of "political soldiers" and of the management had been neglected and correcting this would stabilize the Wehrmacht.

NSFO teaching courses indoctrinated hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of men drafted in the Wehrmacht with antisemitic propaganda: for example, the idea of Jews as parasites to be wiped out.