Paul Carell

Paul Carell (born Paul Karl Schmidt; 2 November 1911 – died 20 June 1997) was a German diplomat, journalist and author. He served as an Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Allgemeine-SS (General SS) in Nazi Germany. He worked as the chief press spokesman for Joachim von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry, where he formulated propaganda for the foreign press. In this capacity during World War II, he maintained close ties with the Wehrmacht. One of his specialties was the "Jewish question". After the war, he became a successful author, mostly of revisionist books that romanticized and whitewashed the Wehrmacht.