Heinz Neumeyer is a German amateur historian. He specializes in the history of Pomerania and Prussia.
He is associated with the
League of Expellees.
[Edmund Spevack, ]
20th century AD
', East European Quarterly / Fall, 1996, p.11 His views on
Polish-German relations have been criticized as biased; for example he claimed that Poland was more responsible than Nazi Germany for starting
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
[ Edmund Spevack, a Harvard lecturer on history and literature noted in East European Quarterly that Neumayer represents at best a trend of amateurish German nationalistic writing, and at worst fits in tradition of biased, emotion-driven Nazi-era historiography, and does not deserve to be seen as a reliable scholar.][ Similarly, ]Karin Friedrich
Karin Friedrich (born 12 June 1963, in Munich) is a German historian, a professor in history at the University of Aberdeen King's College.
Friedrich received an M.A. in history and political science from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich i ...
in '' The Slavonic and East European Review'' said that Neumeyer's writing is too emotional for a scholar, uses "the language of national prejudice and anachronistic references", and contains numerous factual errors.[Karin Friedrich, ''The Slavonic and East European Review'', Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 158-161]
Works
*Die staatsrechtliche Stellung Westpreussens zur Zeit der "polnischen Oberhoheit" (1454-1772), 1953
*Westpreussen ein Blick auf seine Geschichte, 1955
*Der Kreis Stuhm, Westpreussen ein Blick auf seine Geschichte, 1958
*Danzig : ein Blick auf seine Geschichte, 1961
*Westpreussen : ein deutsches Land, 1963
*Für einen besseren Frieden Mitarbeiterkongress 1965, 1965
*Bibliographie zur Kirchengeschichte von Danzig und Westpreussen, 1967
*Aus dem Kirchenleben Westpreussens, 1971
*Kirchengeschichte von Danzig und Westpreussen in evangelischer Sicht, 1971
*Namenregister zum Teil B. Westpreußen des "Altpreußischen evangelischen Pfarrerbuches" von Friedwald Moeller unter Berücksichtigung der von Arnold Golon 1978 verfaßten "Erläuterungen", 1986
*Westpreussen : Geschichte und Schicksal, 1993
References
20th-century German historians
German male non-fiction writers
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