The French author Jean-Paul Picaper , who studied the Oradour massacre perpetrated by the men of the '' Das Reich '' , notes the tendentious nature of Weidinger 's narrative : it provided a sanitized version of history without any references to massacres . He argues that the unit histories , like other HIAG publications , focused on the " positive " , " heroic " side of National Socialism . The researcher Danny S. Parker notes similar efforts undertaken to rewrite the history of the '' Leibstandarte '' division . HIAG worked with Rudolf Lehmann , chief of staff of 1st SS Panzer Corps , to produce what Parker calls an " exculpating multi-volume chronicle " of the division , even including the Malmedy massacre . HIAG involved a legal consultant to make sure the account would be within the framework of the strict German laws prohibiting glorification of the Nazi past . The project also included the former chief of staff of the unit , Dietrich Ziemssen , who in 1952 produced a revisionist version of the massacre in his pamphlet '' Der Malmedy Prozess ''
Oradour massacre
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
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