Wilfred von Oven

Wilfred von Oven

Wilfred von Oven (born La Paz, Bolivia 4 May 1912 – died Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 June 2008) was a German journalist. He joined the SA (Sturmabteilung) and Nazi party in 1931 but resigned from both a year later in protest at the shift of Nazism to the Right. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the early stages of World War 2. He joined the Propaganda Ministry and between 1943-45 was Press adjutant of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After the war he escaped to South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_von_Oven

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