 HIAG contemplated approaching (or approached) Herbert Reinecker, a prolific screenwriter who had served in a propaganda company ("") of the Waffen-SS, but nothing came out of it.By the mid-1950s, HIAG established an image that separated the Waffen-SS from other SS formations and shifted responsibility for crimes that could not be denied to the "Allgemeine-SS" (security and police), the "SS-Totenkopfverbände" and the "Einsatzgruppen".The Waffen-SS was thus successfully integrated into the myth of the clean Wehrmacht.