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Arndt Verlag

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Arndt Verlag
StatusActive
Founded1963; 61 years ago (1963)
Country of originWest Germany
Germany
Headquarters locationKiel
Key peopleDietmar Munier [de]
Fiction genresHistorical negationism
Holocaust denial
Militaria

Arndt Verlag is a German publishing house that belongs to the publishing group of the neo-Nazi publisher Dietmar Munier [de]. It specialises in historical negationist literature. Arndt's authors include David Irving, Wilfred von Oven, Franz Kurowski and Franz W. Seidler.

History and reception

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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 Dietmar Munier [de] 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.[1]

According to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Schleswig-Holstein, Arndt Verlag is trying to "give readers a positive picture of the national-socialist terror".[2] The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentions the publishing house in its reports for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[3] 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.[4]

Authors

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Arndt Verlag's authors included Holocaust deniers and pro-Nazi authors such as:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Nadja Münch und Gabriele Nandlinger. "Arndt-Verlag". Glossar der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Dossier Rechtsextremismus 2010 (in German). BIKnetz. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  2. ^ Innenministerium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein. "Verfassungschutzbericht 2007 des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, S. 56ff" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  3. ^ Verfassungsschutzbericht 2009, S. 136 ff., Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010, p. 114, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011, pp. 115, 117; Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, p. 129.
  4. ^ Bundesverfassungsschutz: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, p. 130.