Krätschmer was active with the HIAG as well and became a regular contributor to the HIAG-magazine '' Der Freiwillige '' . In 1957 he and five other former SS-men launched the so called " Gaeta-Hilfe " ( '' Gaeta Help '' ) to campaign for the release of Walter Reder who in 1951 had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the Marzabotto massacre and was imprisoned in the fortress prison of Gaeta , north of Naples
Marzabotto massacre
Marzabotto massacre
Ernst-Günther Krätschmer