Grabert Verlag Explained

Grabert-Verlag together with its subsidiary Hohenrain-Verlag is one of the largest and best-known extreme-right publishing houses in the Federal Republic of Germany.[1] It is notorious for publishing anti-Semitic works,[2] for example those of Wilhelm Stäglich.[3] It also published works of historical revisionism, such as David Hoggan's Der erzwungene Krieg[4] and books authored by Holocaust deniers such as Georg Franz-Willing.

(1901–1978), a former senior civil servant and lecturer in Alfred Rosenberg's Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, founded a publishing house named Verlag der Deutschen Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (engl. "Publisher of the German University Teacher-Newspaper") in 1953.[5] In 1961, Grabert published the book Der erzwungene Krieg (The Forced War) by David L. Hoggan, which blamed the outbreak of World War II on an alleged Anglo-Polish conspiracy to wage aggression against Germany.[6] [7] Hoggan's book became one of the many extreme-right wing, revisionist publications that followed. The book was a best seller significantly contributing to the commercial success of the publishing house.[8] In 1974 Grabert named his publishing house after himself. His son Wigbert (born 1941) took over the management. He received a DM 30,000 fine after he had published a book by Germar Rudolf denying the Holocaust in 1994.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Damir Skenderovic. The Radical Right in Switzerland: Continuity and Change, 1945-2000. 2009. Berghahn Books. 978-1-84545-580-4. 188.
  2. Book: Uwe Backes. Uwe Backes. The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives. 2011. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 978-3-525-36922-7. 405.
  3. Book: Richard J. Evans. Richard J. Evans. Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial. 2002. Verso. 978-1-85984-417-5. 116.
  4. Book: Georg Franz-Willing. Georg Franz-Willing. Kriegsschuldfrage der beiden Weltkriege. 1992. Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. 148.
  5. Encyclopedia: Finkenberger . Martin . Benz . Wolfgang . Wolfgang Benz . Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart . [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=8RzoBQAAQBAJ |page=244}} Grabert-Verlag (seit 1974) ]. 2013 . Walter de Gruyter . 8 . 244–245.
  6. Lipstadt, Deborah Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York ; Oxford : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993 pages 71 & 73.
  7. Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik., München 1999, S. 42
  8. [Juliane Wetzel]
  9. Encyclopedia: Finkenberger . Martin . Benz . Wolfgang . Wolfgang Benz . Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart . [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=8RzoBQAAQBAJ |page=245}} Grabert-Verlag (seit 1974) ]. 2013 . Walter de Gruyter . 8 . 244–245.

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