HIAG
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HIAG () was a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. Its main objective was to achieve legal, economic, and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS.
Key facts
- Organization.full_name
- Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS Members
- Organization.native_name_lang
- German
- Organization.logo
- HIAG logo.svg
- Organization.logo_size
- 200
- Organization.logo_alt
- Black cross with white and black outline, with the HIAG letters
- Organization.founding_location
- Bonn, West Germany
- Organization.purpose
- Legal, economic and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS
- Organization.methods
- Lobbying Historical negationism
- Organization.membership
- 20,000 (1960s )
- Organization.publication
- ()
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- inception
- 1951-00-00
- discontinuation date
- 1992-00-00
- Commons category
- HIAG
- native label
- Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen‐SS
- short name
- HIAG
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32 sectionsContents
- Background
- Formation
- Leadership
- Organisational principles
- Ideology
- Waffen-SS advocacy
- Tracing service meetings
- Inaugural convention
- Waffen-SS war criminals as victims
- Relationship with political parties
- Controversies
- Effectiveness
- Waffen-SS historical negationism
- Periodicals and illustrated books
- Public speeches
- Memoirs
- Munin Verlag imprint
- Unit histories and biographies
- Successes and other outcomes
- Transition into right-wing extremism
- Dissolution
- Assessment and legacy
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Books
- Academic journals
- Websites and periodicals
- Further reading
- External links
HIAG () was a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. Its main objective was to achieve legal, economic, and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS.
To achieve these aims, the organisation used contacts with political parties, and employed multi-prong historical negationism and propaganda efforts, including periodicals, books, and public speeches. A HIAG-owned publishing house, Munin Verlag, served as a platform for its publicity. This extensive body of work, 57 book titles and more than 50 years of monthly periodicals, has been described by historians as revisionist apologia.