Paul Hausser
German Waffen SS general (1880-1972)
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GermanyOne 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.
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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…
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