Arndt Verlag is a German publishing house that belongs to the publishing group of the
neo-Nazi
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publisher . It specialises in
historical negationist
Historical negationism, also called denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. It should not be conflated with ''historical revisionism'', a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterp ...
literature. Arndt's authors include
David Irving,
Wilfred von Oven
Wilfred von Oven (4 May 1912 – 13 June 2008) was a German journalist, publicist and civil servant who served as the Press Adjutant of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels between 1943 and the German capitulation in 1945.
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,
Franz Kurowski and
Franz W. Seidler
Franz Wilhelm Seidler (born 2 March 1933) is a German historian, author and expert on German military history. From 1973 to 1998, he was a professor of Modern History at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Since retirement, he has published wo ...
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History and reception
Arndt Verlag was founded in 1963 by Heinz von Arndt, who was a member of the neo-Nazi
Deutsche Reichspartei and later of the
NPD. In 1983, the publisher took over the publishing house and integrated it into his publishing company. Munier built Arndt into one of the largest and most important right-wing publishing houses in Germany.
According to the
State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
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In seven federal states of Germany, it is a semi-independent agency called and reports to th ...
of
Schleswig-Holstein
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, Arndt Verlag is trying to "give readers a positive picture of the national-socialist terror". The
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentions the publishing house in its reports for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Its illustrated books "gloss over the Nazi period" and glorify the military techniques of the "Third Reich". Arndt's publications advance a German claim over the
Sudetenland
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.
[Bundesverfassungsschutz: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, p. 130.]
Authors
Arndt Verlag's authors included Holocaust deniers and pro-Nazi authors such as:
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David Irving
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Franz Kurowski
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Wilfred von Oven
Wilfred von Oven (4 May 1912 – 13 June 2008) was a German journalist, publicist and civil servant who served as the Press Adjutant of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels between 1943 and the German capitulation in 1945.
Biography
Wilfred vo ...
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Franz W. Seidler
Franz Wilhelm Seidler (born 2 March 1933) is a German historian, author and expert on German military history. From 1973 to 1998, he was a professor of Modern History at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Since retirement, he has published wo ...
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See also
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Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements:
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Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
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Waffen-SS in popular culture
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The activities of HIAG, a German lobby group founded by former high-ranking ''Waffen-SS' ...
References
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Historical negationism
Propaganda legends
Publishing companies of Germany
Cold War history of Germany