Walter Harzer

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Walter Harzer
Born	29 September 1912
Died	29 May 1982(1982-05-29) (aged 69) Stuttgart
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service / branch	Waffen-SS
Rank	SS-Oberführer[1]
Commands	SS Division Hohenstaufen SS Polizei Division
Battles / wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Walter Harzer (29 September 1912 – 29 May 1982) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He commanded the SS Division Hohenstaufen and SS Polizei Division.

After the war, Harzer became active in HIAG, a lobby group established by senior Waffen-SS men in 1951 in West Germany. He acted as the organisation's official historian, coordinating the writing and publications of revisionist unit histories, which appears in German via the Munin Verlag imprint.