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Der Freiwillige

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Der Freiwillige
1959 cover of Der Freiwillige with a reference to the HIAG meeting in Hamelin. The gathering is termed Suchdiensttreffen ("tracing service meeting"), but was in fact a large-scale convention with 15,000 members attending.[1][2]
EditorErich Kern
CategoriesNazism
First issue1956; 68 years ago (1956)
Final issue2014; 10 years ago (2014)
CompanyMunin-Verlag
Country
Based inReinsfeld
LanguageGerman
OCLC224554876

Der Freiwillige (lit.'The Volunteer') was a German magazine, published from 1956 as the official organ of HIAG, a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951.[3][4] In 2014, the publication was merged into DMZ Zeitgeschichte [de].[5][6]

Bibliography

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  • Large, David C. (1987). "Reckoning without the Past: The HIAG of the Waffen-SS and the Politics of Rehabilitation in the Bonn Republic, 1950–1961". The Journal of Modern History. 59 (1). University of Chicago Press: 79–113. doi:10.1086/243161. JSTOR 1880378. S2CID 144592069.
  • Steiner, John Michael (1975). Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation Into Mass Destruction. The Hague: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-90-279-7651-2.
  • Ward, Richard, ed. (2015). A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-44399-1.

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