 It was partly for this reason that the West German government was sympathetic to the fate of these individuals and made every effort to secure their early release.Chancellor Adenauer even met with Kurt Meyer in Werl Prison when he went there on an inspection tour.In its periodical "Wiking-Ruf", HIAG made use of the same drawings of emaciated German POWs behind barbed wire used by the publications of another post-war organisation—the West German (VdH).