Grabert Verlag

{{Short description|German publishing house}}

Grabert-Verlag together with its subsidiary Hohenrain-Verlag is one of the largest and best-known extreme-right publishing houses in the Federal Republic of Germany.{{cite book|author=Damir Skenderovic|title=The Radical Right in Switzerland: Continuity and Change, 1945-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wP7-a7NC0mkC&pg=PA188|year=2009|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-84545-580-4|page=188}} It is notorious for publishing anti-Semitic works,{{cite book|author=Uwe Backes|author-link=Uwe Backes|title=The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBnmachN8vkC&pg=PA405|year=2011|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=978-3-525-36922-7|page=405}} for example those of Wilhelm Stäglich.{{cite book|author=Richard J. Evans|author-link=Richard J. Evans|title=Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRvr_gkVG70C&pg=PA116|year=2002|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-85984-417-5|page=116}} It also published works of historical revisionism, such as David Hoggan's Der erzwungene Krieg{{cite book|author=Georg Franz-Willing|author-link=Georg Franz-Willing|title=Kriegsschuldfrage der beiden Weltkriege|year=1992|publisher=Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft|page=148}} and books authored by Holocaust deniers such as Georg Franz-Willing.

{{interlanguage link|Herbert Grabert|de|Herbert Grabert}} (1901–1978), a former senior civil servant and lecturer in Alfred Rosenberg's Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, founded a publishing house named Verlag der Deutschen Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (engl. "Publisher of the German University Teacher-Newspaper") in 1953.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Finkenberger |first=Martin |editor1-last=Benz |editor1-first=Wolfgang |editor1-link=Wolfgang Benz |encyclopedia=Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart |title=Grabert-Verlag (seit 1974) |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=8RzoBQAAQBAJ |page=244}} |date=2013 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |volume= 8 |pages=244–245}} In 1961, Grabert published the book Der erzwungene Krieg (The Forced War) by David L. Hoggan, which blamed the outbreak of World War II on an alleged Anglo-Polish conspiracy to wage aggression against Germany.Lipstadt, Deborah Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, New York : Free Press; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York; Oxford : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993 pages 71 & 73.Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik., München 1999, S. 42 Hoggan's book became one of the many extreme-right wing, revisionist publications that followed. The book was a best seller significantly contributing to the commercial success of the publishing house.Juliane Wetzel: Der Geschichtsrevisionismus und der Grabert Verlag. In: Martin Finkenberger, Horst Junginger (Hrsg.): Im Dienste der Lügen. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) und seine Verlage. Aschaffenburg 2004, S. 144. 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 denying the Holocaust in 1994.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Finkenberger |first=Martin |editor1-last=Benz |editor1-first=Wolfgang |editor1-link=Wolfgang Benz |encyclopedia=Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart |title=Grabert-Verlag (seit 1974) |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=8RzoBQAAQBAJ |page=245}} |date=2013 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |volume= 8 |pages=244–245}}