 Complete the following phrase:  The Centre was part of an official campaign by the Weimar Republic and then the Third Reich to counter Allied charges of German war guilt, and suggest consequences. German Governments sought to organise materials from 1914 onwards to counter questions on origins of the war. The key elements of German effort were the War Guilt Section of the Foreign Ministry , the Kriegsschuldreferat, the Working Committee of German Associations , the Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War Zentralstelle zur Erforschung der Kriegschuldfrage and a Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry Untersuchungsausschuss; they used sympathetic writers and translators, and watered down the more controversial memoirs. The Kriegsschuldreferat was established in the Foreign Ministry in December 1918January 1919 under Bernhard von Bülow ardent nationalist and zealous bureaucrat. Its primary task was to prepare the case before the 