 Also, earlier in October the SS newspaper, "Das Schwarze Korps", had written that there would be no German administration under the occupation because any official who collaborated with the enemy could count on being dead within a month.In December 1944 a group of officers belonging to the US Army's Psychological Warfare Division, coordinated by historian Saul K. Padover, arrived in Aachen to assess the German population's political views and their attitude to the Nazis and the local situation.In January 1945 Padover claimed that he had discovered a "wholesale political conspiracy" in the city, centering on Oppenhoff, whose purpose was to keep left-wing forces out of stewardship.