Since 2008 its president is Peter Wassertheurer from Austria,[2] The GWA is the umbrella organization of numerous member German diaspora associations in USA, Canada, Argentina, Columbia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Poland and Serbia The GWA describes itself as "the greatest human rights organization of the Germans worldwide".
In declarations, lectures and publications the representatives of the GWA turn against the thesis of the collective guilt of the Germans and their discrimination in some countries.
[9] In addition, the GWA calls for the rehabilitation and compensation of unjustly interned Germans in North and South America during the two world wars.
The GWA also supported the complaints of the German-Canadian Congress against the concept of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to present mainly the Holocaust.
Instead they requested together with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress the presentation of all mass murders and human right abuses such as Holodomor in Ukraine, genocide against Armenians and massacres in Rwanda.