WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PERPETRATORS? Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic of Germany
DR. KARSTEN WILKE
Despite the outlawing of the SS in the Nuremberg Trials, veterans of the Waffen SS joined together in so-called "mutual aid societies" from the end of the 1940s onwards. From 1959 to 1992, there was a HIAG federal association, which at times
up to 20,000 people belonged to. Karsten Wilke examines the history of the HIAG Federal Association against the background of the history of coming to terms with the past in the Federal Republic of Germany and also focuses on regional biographical cases.
Dr. Karsten Wilke is a historian, research associate at FORENA and author of the standard work on the subject.
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