 Large argues that the equivalence is meaningless, as, contrary to the myth of a clean Wehrmacht, it actively participated in the racial war of extermination in the Soviet Union.Although HIAG's leaders discouraged political affiliations, any leanings were to be "in the spirit of European and patriotic sentiment," as described in a 1951 issue of "Wiking-Ruf" ("Viking Call").Internal disagreements began to emerge in the mid-1950s as to the stance of the organisation