 Remember these martyrs.The memoirs of HIAG's leading members portrayed Waffen-SS men as "misunderstood idealists who fought honourably and well" and included quotations by former Wehrmacht generals endorsing the fighting skills of the Waffen-SS.Steiner's, Meyer's and Hausser's books have been characterised by historian Charles Sydnor as the "most important works of [Waffen-SS] apologist literature".