He then worked at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (MGFA at that time), where he undertook research on Joachim Peiper, the former adjutant of Heinrich Himmler.
[5] Historian Bastian Hein suggested that the book would "provide immunity against any myths about [Peiper's] Waffen-SS career.
Ideologically homogeneous, this group produced a number of later war criminals such as Peiper, Walter Reder, and Fritz Knoechlein.
[8] In 2014, the University of Konstanz commissioned Westemeir to examine the political past of the novelist Hans Robert Jauß.
The conference presented new research on the representation of the German war effort in film, television, and popular literature, including by such authors as Franz Kurowski and Trevor James Constable.
The reviewer also finds that the event "offered insights into new research approaches that counteract the spread of popular representations of the Wehrmacht".