The hidden point of interest......

[Chris Boonzaier]

It is a nice pass, Leibregiment, verdun, the Edelweiss entered into it..... but the 1918 entry hides something very interesting (can be seen in the entry, no further research needed....)

 

Anyone see it? :-)

[Chris Boonzaier]

OK, the hidden point of intrest is the posting to the Nachrichten Offizier der O.H.L..

While Nachrichten is usually Signals troops the "Nachrichten Offizier der O.H.L" was the fledgling Military Intel branch attached to the different Armee Korps...

[Dave Danner]

I vaguely recall seeing a reference to that somewhere, but I can't remember where. Something along the lines of "Nachrichten-Offizier der OHL beim AOK #". Was it discussed in Cron? Maybe I saw it in another Kriegsrangliste-Auszug.

BTW, Nachrichten is probably among the most commonly mistranslated German military terms in English. As I recall, there was a book about WW2 German infantry that always translated it as "intelligence", so apparently infantry battalions had intelligence platoons.  The same book also always translated Granatwerfer as "grenade-launcher", even when it was clear that the subject matter was mortars.  I often cannot tell when Unteroffizier is supposed to be the specific rank or NCO in general.