Paul Hausser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paul Hausser

German SS commander

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1880

Place of Birth: Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1972

Profession: military personnel, military officer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Paul Hausser

  • Paul Hausser (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972) was a German general and then a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former members of the Waffen-SS to achieve historical and legal rehabilitation. Hausser served as an officer in the Prussian Army during World War I and attained the rank of general in the inter-war Reichsheer.
  • After retirement, he joined the SS and was instrumental in forming the Waffen-SS.
  • During World War II, he rose to the level of army group commander.
  • He led Waffen-SS troops in the Third Battle of Kharkov, the Battle of Kursk and the Normandy Campaign.
  • Hausser was the highest-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS alongside Sepp Dietrich.
  • Unlike Dietrich, Hausser was a trained staff officer before joining the SS. After the war he became a founding member and the first spokesperson of HIAG, 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 restoration of legal and economic rights of the Waffen-SS employing a multi-prong propaganda campaign to achieve its aims. Hausser wrote two books, published by right-wing imprints, arguing the purely military role of the Waffen-SS and advancing the notion that its troops were "soldiers like any other", according to the title of the second book.
  • Under Hausser's leadership, HIAG reshaped the image of the Waffen-SS as a so-called pan-European force that fought honorably and had no part in war crimes or Nazi atrocities.
  • These ideas have since been discredited by historians.

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