Mutual aid
HIAG (, literally "Mutual aid association of former Waffen-SS members") was a lobby group and a revisionist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. It campaigned for the legal, economic and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS, using contacts with political parties to manipulate them for its purposes. Kurt Meyer, "Brigadeführer" of the 12th SS Division, a convicted war criminal, was HIAG's most effective spokesperson.