of publisher Dietmar Munier, who had bought Nation Europa in 2009. Krätschmer was active with the HIAG as well and became a regular contributor to the HIAG-magazine Der Freiwillige. In 1957 he and five other former SS-men launched the so-called "Gaeta-Hilfe" (Gaeta Help) to campaign for the release of Walter Reder who in 1951 had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the Marzabotto massacre and was imprisoned in the fortress prison of Gaeta, north of Naples. Publications Die Ritterkreuzträger der Waffen-SS. Plesse-Verl., Göttingen 1955. 3rd ed., K. W. Schütz, Preussisch Oldendorf 1982. 4th ed., Nation Europa Verl., Coburg 1999. 6th ed., Ed. Zeitgeschichte, Selent 2012. Heinz Roth und Ernst-Günther Krätschmer: Le procès de Malmédy suivi de la déclaration de Jochen Peiper (Landsberg, 1948). Et de la biographie de J. Peiper. Éditions du Baucens, Braine-le-Comte 1976. References Citations Bibliography 1920 births 1984 deaths SS-Untersturmführer Dachau concentration camp personnel Waffen-SS personnel German military writers