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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]
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]
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. ISBN978-90-279-7651-2.
