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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- pressure group
- Named after
- Waffen-SS
- Country
- West Germany
- Headquarters
- Bonn
- Legal form
- voluntary association
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- inception
- 1951-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HIAG” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.