# Paul Hausser

> One of the two highest-ranking Waffen-SS commanders, then the architect of its postwar rehabilitation. After leading SS troops through Kharkov, Kursk, and Normandy, he spent the next decades rewriting what those forces had been.

*German Waffen SS general (1880-1972)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1880-10-07
- **Died:** 1972-12-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Paul Hausser served as an officer in the Prussian Army during World War I and rose to general rank in the interwar Reichsheer. After retirement he joined the SS and became instrumental in forming the Waffen-SS, eventually commanding at army group level through the Third Battle of Kharkov, Kursk, and the Normandy Campaign. In 1951 he co-founded HIAG, a lobby group of former Waffen-SS personnel, and became its first spokesperson. He wrote two books arguing the Waffen-SS had played a purely military role — the second titled to claim its troops were "soldiers like any other" — and led a propaganda campaign to restore legal and economic rights while reshaping the organization's image as a pan-European force uninvolved in atrocities. Mainstream historians have rejected those claims. He died in December 1972, having also used the name Paul Falk after the war.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Historical Figures, #Other, #Germany, #Europe, #20th Century

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