History of PR

I found out that World War I played a big part in starting Public Relations.  It was decided that if propaganda could be used for war, it could be used for peace.  Propaganda had received a negative connotation because the Germans used it and that's when it was decided to use the term Public Relations.  I thought that was really interesting that we might be in a class called propaganda if it wasn't for the fact that we considered almost everything German bad after World War I including the words they used.