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 Wes
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.