 HIAG worked with historian Ernst Klink of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg to screen materials donated to the for any information that may have implicated units and personnel in questionable activity.To rehabilitate the image of the force, HIAG underwrote the publication of works by right-wing academics sympathetic to the Waffen-SS.The unit narratives were extensive (often in several volumes) and strived for a so-called official representation of their history, backed by maps and operational orders.