HIAG

Also known as Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS Members

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.

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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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Contents

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

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.