Grabert-Verlag together with its subsidiary Hohenrain-Verlag is one of the largest and best-known extreme-right publishing houses in the

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. It is notorious for publishing anti-Semitic works, for example those of Wilhelm Stäglich. It also published works of historical revisionism, such as David Hoggan's ''Der erzwungene Krieg'' and books authored by

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such as

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. (1901–1978), a former senior civil servant and lecturer in

Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and he held several important posts in the Nazi government. He was the head o ...

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, founded a publishing house named ''Verlag der Deutschen Hochschullehrer-Zeitung'' (engl. "Publisher of the German University Teacher-Newspaper") in 1953. In 1961, Grabert published the book ''Der erzwungene Krieg'' (''The Forced War'') by David L. Hoggan, which blamed the outbreak of

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on an alleged Anglo-Polish

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to wage aggression against Germany. Hoggan's book became one of the many of the extreme-right wing, revisionist publications that followed. The book was a best seller significantly contributing to the commercial success of the publishing house. 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 Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964), also known as Germar Scheerer, is a German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier. Background Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. In 1983 he took his Abitur in Remscheid, then studied chemistr ...

denying the

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in 1994.

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