Hausser wrote two books, published by right-wing imprints, arguing the purely military role of the Waffen-SS and advancing the notion that its troops were "soldiers like any other", according to the title of the second book. Under Hausser's leadership, HIAG reshaped the image of the Waffen-SS as a so-called pan-European force that fought honorably and had no part in war crimes or Nazi atrocities. These ideas have since been discredited by historians, as notwithstanding they were 'soldiers like any other', historians have shown the Wehrmacht was culpable for the atrocities of the Holocaust - the myth of the clean Wehrmacht.