The NSDAP Office of Military Policy (

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: ''Wehrpolitisches Amt der NSDAP'', ''W.P.A.'' or ''WPA'', literally "NSDAP Office of Defense Policy" in English) was a

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organization. It was established on 8 September 1932 in a decree by

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, was led by Franz Ritter von Epp and

Anton Haselmayer Anton Haselmayer (12 April 1895 – 22 January 1962) was a Nazi Party official who served as ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Hesse-Nassau South, but was later dismissed and expelled from the Party. Life Haselmayer was born in Frankfurt am Main. After gra ...

, Deist, Wilhelm (1990). ''Germany and the Second World War: The build-up of German aggression''
pp. 108–109
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, Stuttgart. and housed in the same building as the

NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs The NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs (german: Außenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, ''A.P.A.'' or ''APA'') was a Nazi Party organization. It was set up in April 1933 in the Hotel Adlon in Berlin immediately after the Nazi '' Machtergreifung'' ("Seizur ...

, headed by

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. During the remilitarization of Germany, started by the Nazis shortly after they took power, its avowed aim was to "clarify military-political questions, to conduct propaganda campaigns for the purpose of creating a belligerent spirit and a better understanding of military matters among the people, and to control all activities in the fields of military politics and sciences."Farago, Ladislas; Gittler, Lewis Frederick (1942). ''German psychological warfare'', p. 51. This attempt to gain sole authority in all matters of defense education and training brought it into conflict with the Defense Ministry, which objected to this intrusion into its monopoly on arms-bearing. As a result, it was dissolved in 1935, which did not bother Hitler; aside from the propaganda and war ministries there were also numerous other institutions and organizations already concerned with the 'remilitarization' of the German people.

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{{Authority control Nazi Party organizations Organizations disestablished in 1935

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