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Der Freiwillige

Der Freiwillige 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. In 2014, the publication was merged into DMZ Zeitgeschichte.

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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.12
EditorErich Kern
CategoriesNazism
First issue1956 (1956)
Final issue2014 (2014)
CompanyMunin-Verlag
Country
Based inReinsfeld
LanguageGerman
OCLC224554876

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 1951.34 In 2014, the publication was merged into DMZ Zeitgeschichte.56

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  1. Steiner 1975, p. 277.
  2. Ward 2015, p. see url.
  3. Der Freiwillige : Militärmagazin ; Militärgeschichte, Wehrtechnik, Bundeswehr, Suchdienst (in German). 1956. OCLC 985535964.
  4. Large 1987, p. 84.
  5. Anton Maegerle: Geschichtsrevisionistische Fusion, bnr.de, 22. Februar 2014
  6. Der rechte Rand: Welches Blatt der Verleger Dietmar Munier übernommen hat, Neues von der Waffen-SS, taz, 27. März 2014