Paul Hausser place of death Ludwigsburg
The Waffen-SS was apolitical
It was elite
It was innocent of all war crimes or Nazi atrocities
It was a European army par excellence, the Army of Europe.Historians dismiss, and even ridicule, HIAG's characterisation. The French author Jean-Paul Picaper labels it as a "self-panegyric", while David Clay Large uses the words "extravagant fantasies about [Waffen-SS's] past and future". The historian James M. Diehl describes HIAG's claims of the Waffen-SS being the "fourth branch of the Wehrmacht" as "false", and HIAG's insistence that the force was a precursor to NATO as "even more outrageous".Hausser's last project within HIAG was the five-hundred page SS picture tome under the nostalgic title Wenn alle Brüder schweigen ("When All Our Brothers Are Silent"); the project was spearheaded by Hausser, along with convicted Nazi war criminal Joachim Peiper, another prominent Waffen-SS figure, as a contributor. The publication was released in 1973.Hausser died at the age of 92, on 21 December 1972 at Ludwigsburg.
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