Der Freiwillige

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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.[1][2]
Editor	Erich Kern
Categories	Nazism
First issue	1956; 68 years ago (1956)
Final issue	2014; 10 years ago (2014)
Company	Munin-Verlag
Country	West Germany Germany
Based in	Reinsfeld
Language	German
OCLC	224554876

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]