Der Freiwillige

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]

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]
Editor	Erich Kern
Categories	Nazism
First issue	1956; 69 years ago (1956)
Final issue	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Company	Munin-Verlag
Country	West Germany Germany
Based in	Reinsfeld
Language	German
OCLC	224554876

Bibliography

• 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.
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