1959 cover of Der Freiwillige with a reference to the HIAG meeting in Hamelin. The gathering is termed Suchdiensttreffen ("tracing service meeting"), but was in fact a large-scale convention with 15,000 members attending.^[1][2]

Der Freiwillige was a German magazine, published from 1956 as the official organ of HIAG.^[3][4] In 2014, it was merged into DMZ Zeitgeschichte.^[5][6]

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