Arndt Verlag
{{Short description|German neo-Nazi publishing house}}
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| genre = Historical negationism
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Arndt Verlag is a German publishing house that belongs to the publishing group of the neo-Nazi publisher {{illm|Dietmar Munier|de|Dietmar Munier}}. It specialises in historical negationist literature. Arndt's authors include David Irving, Wilfred von Oven, Franz Kurowski and Franz W. Seidler.
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 {{illm|Dietmar Munier|de|Dietmar Munier}} 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.{{cite web|title=Arndt-Verlag|periodical=Glossar der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Dossier Rechtsextremismus 2010|publisher=BIKnetz|url=https://www.biknetz.de/glossar/glossary-detail/arndt-verlag.html?type=0|url-status=dead|access-date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022041027/https://www.biknetz.de/glossar/glossary-detail/arndt-verlag.html?type=0|archive-date=22 October 2014|last=Nadja Münch und Gabriele Nandlinger|language=de}}
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".{{cite web|title=Verfassungschutzbericht 2007 des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, S. 56ff.|url=http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/IM/DE/InnereSicherheit/Verfassungsschutz/Downloads/Verfassungsschutzbericht_2007__blob=publicationFile.pdf|url-status=dead|access-date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709064141/http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/IM/DE/InnereSicherheit/Verfassungsschutz/Downloads/Verfassungsschutzbericht_2007__blob=publicationFile.pdf|archive-date=9 July 2014|last=Innenministerium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein|language=de}} The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentions the publishing house in its reports for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/download-manager/_vsbericht-2009.pdf Verfassungsschutzbericht 2009], S. 136 ff., [http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/download-manager/_vsbericht-2010.pdf Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010], p. 114, [http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/download-manager/_vsbericht-2011.pdf Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011], pp. 115, 117; [http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/download-manager/_vsbericht-2012.pdf Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012], p. 129. 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.Bundesverfassungsschutz: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, p. 130.
Authors
Arndt Verlag's authors included Holocaust deniers and pro-Nazi authors such as:
- David Irving
- Franz Kurowski
- Wilfred von Oven
- Franz W. Seidler
- {{illm|Gustav Sichelschmidt|de|Gustav Sichelschmidt}}
- {{illm|Günter Zehm|de|Günter Zehm}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Falsification of history}}
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Category:Historical negationism in Germany