Talk:HIAG/Archive 1

The name in English translation?
The page name is an abbreviation or acronym, and the opening paragraph gives Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS. A translation into English would be helpful and appropriate. -- Thanks, Deborahjay 13:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Improvements
Hi, this article is in need of some updates to provide contemporary assessments and to adjust POV. Are there any editors interested in working on this? K.e.coffman (talk) 07:32, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Research notes

 * Ward 2015


 * HIAG meeting photos


 * Sydnor 1977 on Stein, Hausser, Meyer


 * Kontext: HIAG archives; protests re: taxpayer funds being used w/o giving access to historians


 * Der Freiwillige at your local library!


 * The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-1945 by Stein: The Tarnished Shield


 * Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach by MacKenzie: HIAG historical revisionism


 * The thanks of the Fatherland by Diehl: veterans' organisation


 * Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich by Fritz: Max Simon's crimes in Brettheim


 * David C. Large: "Reckoning without the Past": exploration of HIAG as a 'pressure group'


 * Pioneer of the Shoah: The Waffen-SS, Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS and the Extermination of the Jews, 1939–1945 by Cüppers: Erich Eberhardt]


 * Viking Youth banned in 1994


 * Hans Wissebach; seated as member of parliament - JTA


 * Successor organization?


 * Richard Schulze-Kossens obituary - no criminal convictions listed; will remove from the list of convicted war criminals


 * Article 131 of the Basic Law


 * Erich Kern - Petropoulos; Journal of Central European Affairs, 1962


 * Jean-Paul Picaper - "crucible of revisionism"; Das Reich series by Weidinger provided a sanitized version of history without any references to massacres. More so than its predecessors, the series created a method, perhaps with the legal advice from HIAG, that focused on the positive, the "heroic" side of National Socialism.


 * Taken off the list of right-wing extremist organizations in 1984 - JTA; NYT


 * 1985 meetings - NYT


 * 1956 - gained official recognition as an association; Guido Knopp


 * VdH - in Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany, by Frank Biess


 * Anti-liberal Europe: A Neglected Story of Europeanization edited by Dieter Gosewinkel:VdH & HIAG


 * More on the 1950 Himmeroder Document - Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering, by Paul Cooke, Marc Silberman


 * Post-war - Jorg Haider, etc; More Haider - in Fascism's Return: Scandal, Revision, and Ideology Since 1980, edited by Richard Joseph Golsan;


 * In the Tracks of Breivik: Far Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe – Revisionism: We can change history together: Baltic 'freedom fighters'


 * Past in the making: historical revisionism in Central Europe after 1989 by Michal Kopeček: more on Baltic states


 * 'Infamous and lying propagandists' - Otto Kumm per Steiner


 * Waffen-SS in general - Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection


 * Go East Old Man – Journal of Current Cultural Research web archive link


 * 'supposed to be some sort of relief society' - Calcutta Review


 * Sample of Siegrunen, issue 79 - not using it as a source, listing more for the curiosity factor


 * 1950s - a decade of suppression of Germany's Nazi past Hebere


 * Protests in Riga; 2014 protest - another article; 2015 protest; more on the revisionism in the Baltic states


 * Europa-Konzeptionen der SS


 * The Waffen-SS as Freedom Fighters: Sweedish Waffen-SS veterans


 * Bernd Wegner, Erschriebene Siege. Franz Halder, die 'Historical Division' und die Rekonstruktion des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Geiste des deutschen Generalstabes: Victory-through-writing; Hausser's work (co-author with Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff): Fighting the Breakout: The German Army in Normandy from "Cobra" to the Falaise Gap. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, 2004


 * The Unknown Soldier, review


 * Returning Memories: Former Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany, by Christiane Wienand -- discussion on Kriegsverurteilte ("war convicts")


 * Cambridge Journals: historical revisionism, full article


 * "the myth of the Waffen SS as an independent organization"


 * Waffen-SS counter-narrative, full article

K.e.coffman (talk) 07:15, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Missing ref "Weinberg 2005"
The short ref "Weinberg 2005" does not link to any of the sources listed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:39, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you; I added the book cited. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Parking spot: Further reading


Unused. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:19, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

A couple of quick suggestions
Per the request on my talk page, I took a quick run through the article. I have a couple of suggestions: AustralianRupert (talk) 07:50, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * In the Citations section there is a ref called "Tauber 1967, p. 539", is this Volume I or II?
 * this probably needs attribution in text: "...The Allies' often crude and ineffective implementation caused local population to dismiss the process as "noxious mixture of moralism and 'victors' justice'". For instance, "According to Large, the Allies' often crude and ineffective implementation caused local population to dismiss the process as "noxious mixture of moralism and 'victors' justice'."
 * this probably should be referenced: "Those in the leadership roles held high wartime SS ranks ranging from SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer to SS-Obersturmbannführer."
 * there is a mixture of US and British English spelling. For instance, "organisation" (British) and "center" (US). Either is fine, but it should be consistent;
 * "Steffen Werther & Madeleine Hurd" --> "Steffen Werther and Madeleine Hurd"
 * "At some point, the HIAG's periodical and the Munin Verlag publishing..." --> "At some point, the HIAG periodical and the Munin Verlag publishing..."
 * there is some inconsistency in how you use mdashes and ndashes

— Preceding unsigned comment added by AustralianRupert (talk • contribs) 07:50, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Janson 2006
G'day, thanks for your efforts so far. I just took a quick look and noticed a minor issue. I have a script installed that highlights short citations that don't have corresponding long citations. It is currently reporting "Janson 2006" as being one of these. Is someone able to add the full bibliographic details to the Bibliography? Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:20, 26 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I re-added Janson. It must have been moved in the recent relocations. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:54, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Should the support of foreign and domestic intelligence agencies be added to this article?
I was wondering if adding support from agencies like the CIA, BND etc. should be added to the article because there are several reliable sources on this topic regarding the HIAG and it's members as well as the support HIAG remembers receives after WW2 by the CIA through the connections to it from the Gehlen Organisation which then became the BND. This happened because the USA prefered to gain intelligence and help from HIAG members regarding the Soviet Union and the Cold War rather than putting them in jail. But before i add or change anything i'd be interested in the opinion from people who created and edited this page. Thanks in advance ChartreuxCat (talk) 02:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that would be great. It's not something that I've come across before in the sources that I used, so I don't really no the story on that. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response, i'm gathering some information and it's sources for this as we speak. Too bad personal inheritances, documents and diaries can't be used because a grandfather was in the HIAG and helpful to the BND and CIA several times during the 1960s, of which i have the relevant documents. But there is still enough reliable outside private sources, especially in german language that will be enough for an informative addition to this article. Is there any way i can contact you with questions and what information is ::worth adding? I'm still new on here and can't find an e-mail adress or a message option. Thanks in advance for the help. ChartreuxCat (talk) 23:56, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, could you clarify re: "reliable outside private sources"? What are these? Also I wonder if you may have access to this source:
 * This may be the most comprehensive and current source of HIAG available. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:17, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello K.e.coffman. The book you listed is indeed a reliable source and yes i have access to it. The other reliable sources i was refering to would be research artices by the IfZ (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) which is used a lot on german wikipedia and accepted as reliable source. For example, some IfZ historians, while seeing private accounts of HIAG members as biased, do quote some of these accounts in their studies and research as well as book publications. And the IfZ is very picky when it comes to anything Waffen SS related or written by HIAG members. Would these sources be acceptable on english wikipedia? On top of the IfZ i would also add publications by the BND regarding the HIAG which would help immensely to add information on support from the OSS/CIA of several personalities of the HIAG organisation. As i asked before, if there is any way to privately message you i'd like to provide you the sources before i would dare adding anything to this article. Thanks in advance ChartreuxCat (talk) 21:31, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Wilke should be a great source; does the book mention anything about the HIAG-CIA relationships? Regarding other potential sources, have these private materials been analysed by historians or other scholars? Wikipedia does not generally use unpublished sources; pls see WP:Identifying reliable sources.
 * For more general questions, you can visit Teahouse and pose them to the hosts there (there's a big button "Ask a question" at the top of the page). This is a great spot for new editors to get support. Hope this helps! K.e.coffman (talk) 02:28, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * For more general questions, you can visit Teahouse and pose them to the hosts there (there's a big button "Ask a question" at the top of the page). This is a great spot for new editors to get support. Hope this helps! K.e.coffman (talk) 02:28, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Nitpick...
Not going to bring it up on the FAC, but "The historian Henning Pieper notes non-scholarly works by Christopher Ailsby,, and Tim Ripley as part of "militaria literature" genre (in his definition)"... the "Herbert Walther (writer)" is just plain ugly. Is there a way to get this fixed so we're not airing our disambiguation laundry all over the place? Ealdgyth - Talk 13:59, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The de.wiki article is not helpful as far as sources go; not enough to create a stub -- and I did not find much in English either. I removed the link. --K.e.coffman (talk) 03:15, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Levenda...
Checking Levenda:


 * 19a "Ostensibly, HIAG existed to provide aid to veterans, but it included many members who were convicted war criminals." sourced to page 167. The source says "Ostensibly, HIAG was only there to provide economic relief for its members, but its ranks included men who had been convicted of war crimes and it was perceived as a Nazi organization." Paraphrasing here is a bit close for my taste - the order is very very close. I note also that Lavenda points out that one reason for the organization was that SS members could not collect pensions because the SS as an organization had been declared a criminal organization - this isn't really brought out in the article and should be... it's sorta touched on but not made very explicit.
 * 19b - same pages in the source as above. The information it's sourcing is "Perceived by the West German government to be a Nazi organisation, HIAG was banned at the federal level in 1992." Again - very close paraphrasing to the source which states "... and it was perceived by the West German government as a Nazi Organization. It was eventually disbanded in 1992." And Lavenda does not support that HIAG was banned at the federal level in 1992.
 * Another issue - see Google Scholar listing of cites to this work. This is very light sourcing - granted the book was published in 2014, but the publisher isn't a big name publisher (much less an academic press) - see website which says "IBIS PRESS / NICOLAS HAYS is dedicated to to providing the finest spiritual literature available today. We specialize in publishing books from both classic and modern sources that outline the basis and development of the world's Mystery Traditions. Our subjects include Alchemy, Astrology, Depth Psychology, Magick, Spirituality, Women's Mysteries, and the many other paths of human striving for union with the Infinite." Their history works are listed here and include such titles as The Lovecraft Code, Secret Societies: Illuminati, Freemasons, and the French Revolution. Levenda is the author of the Lovecraft Code as well as Ratline: Soviet Spies Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler. Cites to the work are mostly mirrors of Wikipedia (here and here) or this which defies categorization. On the plus side, World Cat shows its held by 76 libraries world wide. But I'm not seeing this as a "high quality" reliable source by Wikipedia standards. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I replaced Levenda with Kühne 2017 and Werther & Hurd 2016. I have the PDF of the latter, which I can email, if you are interested. It's a newer article that I did not have at the time of the writing of this page in early 2016. Kühne is also new. He mentions HIAG on ~10 pages; I'll see if there's more stuff there that's useful. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

MacKenzie
Checking MacKenzie:


 * Current ref 8 (cited twice) - pp. 136-137. Sourcing for "In the same year (1951), some former career officers of the Wehrmacht were granted war pensions under the Basic Law. Unlike the Wehrmacht, the SS had been deemed a criminal organisation at the Nuremberg trials and could thus act as an "alibi of a nation" (as Gerald Reitlinger's 1956 book of that title suggested). The SS was the entity onto which all crimes of the Nazi regime were conveniently shifted. Consequently, Waffen-SS career personnel were not covered under the 1951 law." (8a) and "Former Waffen-SS men who wished to join the Bundeswehr still faced heightened scrutiny. All Waffen-SS applicants went through the rigorous vetting process reserved for those with the higher ranks in the Wehrmacht. HIAG protested to the government and its military planners, but to no avail. As a result, by September 1956, only 33 of 1310 applications by ex-Waffen-SS officers had been accepted (making them 0.4% of the Bundeswehr's officer corps), as compared to 195 of 462 applications by enlisted men." (8b).
 * 8a sorta supports some of the information - but it doesn't cover all of it. There isn't a mention of the Basic Law on those two pages. Also, close paraphrasing again - the source says "...onto which all responsibility for past crimes could be shifted." Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm re-reading Large 1987, to see if I can find the info there. --K.e.coffman (talk) 00:36, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved the mention of the Basic Law to a Large cite that mentions it specifically & reworded to avoid close paraphrasing. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:43, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 8b - supports some but not all of the information. The "All Waffen-SS applicants went through the rigorous vetting process reserved for those with the higher ranks in the Wehrmacht" part isn't fully supported - nothing is mentioned about the Wehrmacht. And the "HIAG protested to the government and its military planners, but to no avail." part isn't supported at all - in fact, MacKenzie points out that in 1961 the Bundestag partially restored pension rights to Waffen-SS... Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Current ref 10 - page 137 - cited 7 times:
 * 10a - "HIAG began in late 1950 as a loose association of local groups. The majority of participants were officers, most often of junior grades. In the summer of 1951, HIAG was formally established by Otto Kumm, a former SS-Brigadeführer. By October 1951, HIAG consisted of 376 local branches." (also supported by current ref 11 - Large p. 82) The first two sentences and last sentence are not supported by MacKenzie - they ARE supported by Large - but again we've got close paraphrasing issues - Large says "The HIAG began in late 1950 as a loose association of local "support" groups, most of which amounted to little more than small gatherings around a favorite Stammtisch. The majority of the participants were former officers, generally of junior grade. By October 1951, however, the HIAG claimed to embrace soem 376 local branches spread across the entire Federal Republic." The paraphrasing needs fixing and the citations should be spread to the information they actually support - thus put citation 10a on just the sentence it supports and 11 on the other three sentences it supports. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Fixed. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 10b - "But this wider aim proved impossible to achieve: the government was circumspect as rehabilitating the Waffen-SS would have opened the door to claims by personnel of other SS and Nazi organisations, including SA, SD, Hitler Youth, and others—a prospect the federal government would rather not have had raised either domestically or internationally. The public image of the organisation was not helping either, because some of the more outspoken HIAG members sounded "alarmingly Nazi in their pronouncements," according to Large." (also supported by current ref 45 - Large p. 90) The only sentence that MacKenzie supports is the one starting "The public image..." but here there's another issue - the article says that Large said "alarmingly Nazi in their pronouncements" but that's MacKenzie's statement - "...because some of the more enthusiastic members of HIAG sounded alarmingly Nazi in their pronouncements." Large does support the first bits fine - but the sentences he supports should have that citation them there ... as above, make the citations go on the sentences they support rather than putting two sources on a bunch of sentences that they partially support. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Fixed. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 10c - "The memoirs of HIAG's leading members portrayed Waffen-SS men as "misunderstood idealists who fought honourably and well" and included testimonials by former Wehrmacht generals endorsing the fighting skills of the Waffen-SS." (as a side note - the "misunderstood...well" quote should have an attribution and citation on the quote as well as the quote at the end of the sentence) Supported but its a bit of a close paraphrase - I think it'd be safer if "testimonials" was replaced with another word. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Fixed. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 10d - "Both Hausser and Steiner followed up their 1950s books with works published in the 1960s. Published in 1963, Steiner's book was called The Army of Outlaws ("Die Armee der Geächteten"). Hausser's work appeared in 1966 under the title Soldiers Like Any Other ("Soldaten wie andere auch"). According to MacKenzie, the books' titles were symbolic of the Waffen-SS image that HIAG's leaders wanted to portray, while Sydnor describes this later generation of books as "equally tendentious"." - (also sourced to Sydnor 1973 - but clearly the Sydnor cite is for the last clause - so the cite to MacKenzie should go after "wanted to portray," with Sydnor only on the last bits.) The sourcing here is fine.
 * Fixed. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 10e - "Prior to the establishment of HIAG's own publishing house Munin Verlag (below), HIAG-affiliated books were predominantly published by Plesse Verlag (de) in Göttingen, owned by an extreme right-wing politician and publisher Waldemar Schütz (de)." Not supported by MacKenzie at all. MacKenzie doesn't tie Munin Verlag to HIAG and none of the rest of the information is supported. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I revised to match the source & added citation. MacKenzie does mention Plesse Verlag and Munin Verlag. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 10f - "The positive image of the Waffen-SS as an organisation indeed took root, and not only in Germany itself. In the era of the Cold War, senior Waffen-SS personnel were "not shy about the fact that they had once organised a NATO-like army, and an elite one at that," notes MacKenzie (emphasis in the original)." The quote isn't quite reflected properly here - MacKenzie actually says it this way "not shy about suggesting that they had once organized and led a NATO-like army (and an elite one at that)." Also close paraphrasing issue - MacKenzie says "...the positive image of the Waffen-SS the organization [HIAG] has promoted has taken root and by no means only in Germany. In an era of Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West, senior Waffen-SS personnel were not shy ..." Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Revised. --K.e.coffman (talk) 23:06, 30 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 10g - "MacKenzie refers to HIAG's body of work as a "chorus of self-justification" - not on page 137, it's actually on page 138 towards the bottom. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Revised. --K.e.coffman (talk) 23:06, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

"As older generation of Waffen-SS scribes has died off, a new, post-war cadre of writers has done much to perpetuate the image of the force as a revolutionary European army. The degree of admiration and acceptance varies, but the overall tendency to accentuate the positive lives on, or has indeed grown stronger."" - need a cite on the first sentence since there is a quote there. Also - there is a "the" missing in the second quote, should be "As the older...". Also the second sentence is missing some words - "The degree of admiration and acceptance of the HIAG version of events varies, but an the overall tendency to accentuate the positive lives on, or has indeed grown stronger (and has indeed grown stronger as the war continues to recede into history)."
 * Current ref 46 - page 141 cited twice: (it really should cite 141-142, as the information rolls over to page 142 also)
 * 46a - "while the military historian S.P. MacKenzie refers to it, when used in reference to the Western Front, as "the least credible" of the several claims put forth by Waffen-SS apologists." - supported by the source although MacKenzie doesn't actually mention Adenauer on the page and it's pretty much an inferrance that this section of MacKenzie refers specifically to Adenauer's declaration. Nor is this section of MacKenzie directly tied to HIAG either.
 * 46b - "He points out that, in the East, the Wehrmacht equaled the Waffen-SS in its brutality, so the attempted equivalence was "rather ironic"." - well, actually ... MacKenzie says "Rather ironically, recent scholarship conclusively indicates that on the Eastern Front the Wehrmacht was just as brutal as the Waffen-SS."
 * Current ref 51 - page 138 cited four times:
 * 51a - "HIAG's rewriting of history encompassed multi-prong publicity campaigns, including tendentious periodicals, books and public speeches, as well as a publishing house dedicated to presenting the Waffen-SS in a positive light. The leadership viewed restoring the "tarnished shield"[n 4] as a key component of the desired legal and economic rehabilitation, and thus no effort was spared." (also cited to Wilke p. 399) The first sentence is basically supported but the second is not - if it's only to Wilke - it should have the MacKenzie citation split off from that second sentence and moved to the first which it does support.
 * 51b - "The theme of foreign volunteers was featured prominently, with Steiner lending his voice in this area. In a 1958 editorial, he praised the foreign volunteers who, like their German comrades, saw the "diabolical" threat of Bolshevism and "fought like lions" against it as part of the Waffen-SS. The picture books echoed the same themes; one of them proclaimed: "From all European lands came volunteers as genuine comrades-in-arms. They fought for their Fatherland against Bolshevism."" the last sentence is supported by MacKenzie - but not the first - which does mention "fought like lions" but does not tie this to some editorial in 1958 (at least not in the text) - some writings in Die Friewilligen are mentioned but it is not stated as an editorial.
 * 51c - "Glossy books such as Waffen-SS in Pictures (1957) featured, as described by MacKenzie, "tales of valour and heroism" and "propaganda photographs of Aryan-ideal volunteers from all over the Continent"." supported fine.
 * 51d - "The unit narratives were extensive (often in several volumes) and strived for a so-called official representation of their history, backed by maps and operational orders. MacKenzie points out that "the older or the more famous the unit, the larger the work—to the point where no less than five volumes and well over 2,000 pages were devoted to the doings of the 2nd Panzer Division Das Reich", authored by its former officer Otto Weidinger." - the unit bit is mostly supported but the "often in several volumes" is a bit iffy on being supported - nor is it clear that "strived for a so-called official representation of their history, backed by maps and operational orders" is supported by the text.
 * Current ref 66 - pp. 137-138 - cited once
 * "Paul Hausser's 1953 book Waffen-SS in Action (Waffen-SS im Einsatz) was the first major work by one of the HIAG leaders. It had an unmistakable connection to the Nazi origins of the Waffen-SS: the SS runes on the cover art and the SS motto ("My honour is called loyalty") embossed on the cloth cover. Former Wehrmacht general Heinz Guderian endorsed Waffen-SS troops in a foreword and referred to them as "the first realisation of the European idea". Hausser described the growth of the Waffen-SS into a so-called multinational force where foreign volunteers fought heroically as a "militant example of the great European idea"." MacKenzie doesn't say that Hausser's Waffen-SS was the first major work by one of the HIAG leaders - he says "A brief review of the first two books [Hausser and Steiner's works in the 1950s], among the first HIAG-sponsored volumes to appear will suffice to indicate the tone and thrust of the corpus as a whole. [paragraph break] Hausser was first off the mark in 1953 with Waffen-SS im Einsatz;..." Also - The last bit is a bit misleading - the quote should be "the first realization [note the Z spelling, not S] of the European idea". Then we have a close paraphrasing issue - MacKenzie is "Hausser himself went on to detail the growth of the Waffen-SS into a multinational force where foreign volunteers, including 'our Muslims', fought and died heroically to the bitter end 'as a militant example of the great European idea'."
 * Current ref 97 - page 139 cited once:
 * "HIAG was instrumental in creating the perception in popular culture of the Waffen-SS being "comrades-in-arms engaged in a noble crusade" (according to MacKenzie). West German researchers questioned these notions, but German society overall, wanting to forget the past, embraced the image. MacKenzie highlights the long-term effects of HIAG's revisionism:[97]
 * Current ref 105 - page 140, cited once
 * "According to MacKenzie, authors in the revisionist tradition range from "extreme admirers [on] the fringes of the far-right," such as Richard Landwehr and Jean Mabire, to partisan authors (Gordon Williamson and Edmund L. Blandford), and popular historians who generally present the Waffen-SS in a positive light. These include John Keegan, James S. Lucas and Bruce Quarrie." - need a cite on the quote in the early part of the first sentence.
 * Another issue is that MacKenzie only calls Blandford partisan - he says "While Williamson approaches his subjects with at least a degree of skepticism, Blandford is unquestionably partisan." I dont think we can call Williamson partisan - unduly postive probably, but MacKenzie is pretty clear that he doesn't apply the partisan label to Williamson.
 * A further problem is that neither Landwehr nor Mabire are discussed on page 140 - it is true that Mabire's name is the first word on page 140, but the discussion of his works and the quote given about "extreme admirers" is actually on page 139. The quote is also a bit misleading as what MacKenzie says is "the most extreme admirers are, not surprisingly, to be found on the fringes of the far right." which is not really what is presented in the article - the "[on]" is really a rather lengthy ellipses that is misleading. Given that all this is discussed on page 139, we need the citation to reflect that it is more than page 140.
 * It's also not clear that MacKenzie lumps Mabire into the "extreme admirers" category - at least as far as being someone on the fringes of the far right. MacKenzie puts Mabire in a category more of accepting the idea of the pan-national waffen-ss but without being overtly sympathetic to Nazism. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

More source review...
Sorry this is taking a while - it's slow getting in the sources.
 * Pieper Fegelein's Horsemen
 * First use is to source (along with Parker) "Other similar books included Scattered are the Traces (1979), Cavalry Divisions of the Waffen-SS (1982), Panzer Grenadiers of the 'Viking' Division in Pictures (1984) and many others. (One of the cavalry units in question, SS Cavalry Brigade, was responsible for the murder of an estimated 23,700 Jews and others in July–August 1941 alone during the Pripyat swamps punitive operation. Its regimental commander Lombard reported eliminating close to 11,000 "plunderers" in the first two weeks the same operation." this is said to be on page 120. There are problems - Pieper sorta kinda supports the 23,700 - if you add together the 21,800 that are reported by Fegelin to the 1900 in the second mission - but nothing on page 120 supports the dates, the plunderers, that Lombard reported the deaths of plunders, or the books named in the first part.
 * Second use is to source (along with Citino) "The historian Henning Pieper notes non-scholarly works by Christopher Ailsby, Herbert Walther, and Tim Ripley as part of "militaria literature" genre (in his definition), while the military historian Robert Citino includes books by Willi Fey and Michael Reynolds among uncritical works aimed at "military history buffs"." This is sourced to page 8 and 191 - page 191 is actually the footnote 26 from page 8 - perhaps it would be better to source it as "Pieper p. 8 and footnote 26 on page 181"?
 * Pontolillo Murderous Elite
 * Only use is to source "The revisionist tradition continues to the present time, through popular history books, web sites and wargames. New titles appear every year, propagating the myths first put forth by HIAG's propaganda efforts. Some of the books are amateur historical studies that focus solely on the military aspects of the Waffen-SS. Others are reprints of apologetic accounts by former Waffen-SS personnel. Adding to the volume of material are groups of international admirers who consider the Waffen-SS to have been incorrectly judged by history." which is just cited to the entire work, as there is no page number. Unfortunately - that's not helpful. Pontolillo is almost 500 pages long and there is no index - so I cannot possibly verify this information. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:02, 26 July 2018 (UTC)