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	'''Heinz Nawratil''' (born 1937 in ], ]) is a ] lawyer and legal author. He is particularly known for his work on ]. He has also written for the ], which has been described as the "world's leading ] organization. <ref name=Coogan>], "The mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?", ''HITLIST magazine'',
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	April/May 2002.</ref><ref name=Insight>], 3/5/2002, . Similar descriptions are used by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, '']'' (April 7, 2003), Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman, ''Denying History'', University of California Press, 2002, Suzanne Pharr. ''Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash'', South End Press, 1995.</ref>
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			'''Heinz Nawratil''' (born 1937 in ], ]) is a ] lawyer, legal author and ] scholar and activist. He is known for his work on the ], for his widely distributed legal textbooks aimed at law students, lawyers and lay people alike, as well as for his general human rights activism, particularly within the ]. Born in Moravia, he is himself a survivor of the 1945 ] of Germans from his homeland.

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==
	After World War II Nawratil settled in ], ], where he grew up in ]. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a ].{{Citation needed\|date=August 2009}} He has written legal textbooks which have been printed in over a million copies.{{Citation needed\|date=August 2009}}

			After ], he came as a ] to ], where he grew up in ]. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a ]. He has written legal textbooks, which are published by the ], the ] and ], and which have been printed in over a million copies. He has also published scientific works on human rights, particularly ]. He has written a large number of articles for the journals ''Parlament'' and ''academia'', and has contributed to an introduction to ]<ref>http://www.pressekatalog.de/Die+deutschen+Nachkriegsverluste-buchnr_20259715.html?PartnerID=SP20512</ref>.
	German historian ] (former head of ] in Munich) has described Nawratil's works as "polemics written from a nationalist-rightist point of view" that "exaggerate in absurd way the scale of any crimes that accompanied the expulsion of Germans."<ref>Ingo Haar "Straty związane z wypędzeniami": stan badań, problemy, perspektywy. Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny t. 7 nr 5 (39) 2007 </ref>

			Nawratil is an active member of the ], a human rights NGO with advisory status at the ]. In 2007, he was part of a delegation of the Society for Threatened Peoples that visited ].<ref>http://www.gfbv.de/pressemit.php?id=1147&stayInsideTree=1&PHPSESSID=accd533d41c79eae1280c75f40a569ae</ref>
	Nawratil's book ''Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948'' has been described in a review by ] from Depertment of History of ] as an "unabashedly partisan catalog of German victimization". According to Bjork's, the description of Polish-German
	relations in the book consists exclusively of Polish mistreatment of Germans. The book's bibliography includes many publications from the ] regime, while completely ignoring works from Eastern Europe (regardless if they were published before or after 1989).<ref>James Bjork ''Visual Education about Historical Trauma'', February, 2009, ]</ref>

			He has given lectures for the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Protestant ], and been a guest of several ] and ] talk shows.
	Besides his books, Heinz Nawratil also wrote a "]" in honor of ]<ref>http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/10/1/Nawratil118-122.html</ref> who heads the ], known for ], and according to Michael Schmidt's book "The new Reich: violent extremism in unified Germany and beyond" an enthusiastic historical revisionist, criticized by ] as a "far right historian working for the relief of ]". Nawratil in his diatribe names Schickel as "obsessed with objectivity"<ref>] 47/ v. 22. 11/1193</ref><ref>''The new Reich: violent extremism in unified Germany and beyond'' Michael Schmidt page 186 New York : Pantheon Books, c1993. </ref>

	Nawratil has also published articles alongside the likes of ] and ] Chief ] in Grabert Verlag publication <ref>http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.hohenrain.de/grabertverlag/product_info.php%3Fproducts_id%3D39&ei=qOOLSrfSOo7bjQfS3PTkCw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DHeinz%2BNawratil%2BJorg%2BHaider%2BGrabert%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DDDP%26sa%3DG</ref>. The ] has been described as a leading right wing ] in Germany specializing in ], which was founded as a platform for distribution of various right wing extremist writers involved with revisionism and hate speech, as well as whitewashing of Nazism <ref name="pfahl-traughber1">Vgl. Armin Pfahl-Traughber: ''Der organisierte Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland nach 1945.'' in: Wilfried Schubarth, Richard Stöss (Hrsg.): ''Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine Bilanz.'' Schriftenreihe Band 368 der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 2000, S. 75ff.</ref><ref name="vs-bw">Vgl. </ref><ref>''The study of religion under the impact of fascism'' Horst Junginger page 168 Brill Academic Publishers 2007)</ref>. It has also been the major publisher of Holocaust denial literature in the United States.

	== Selected publications ==		== Selected publications ==
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	*''Die Vertreibung der Deutschen : unbewältigte Vergangenheit Europas'', ], 1991, ISBN 3-925103-47-3		*''Die Vertreibung der Deutschen : unbewältigte Vergangenheit Europas'', ], 1991, ISBN 3-925103-47-3
	*''HGB leicht gemacht'', Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 21th edition, 2007, ISBN 3874402061		*''HGB leicht gemacht'', Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 21th edition, 2007, ISBN 3874402061
	*''Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948. Das letzte Kapitel unbewältigter Vergangenheit'', Universitas Verlag, ~~14.~~ ~~Auflage~~ 2007, ISBN 3800413876		*''Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948. Das letzte Kapitel unbewältigter Vergangenheit'', Universitas Verlag, 14th edition 2007, ISBN 3800413876
	*''Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung'', ], 5. ~~Auflage~~ 1987, ISBN 3548330843		*''Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung'', ], 5th edition 1987, ISBN 3548330843

			==Honours==
			* Förderpreis der Stiftung der Deutschen Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände zur Förderung der Kommunalwissenschaften (1965)

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Heinz Nawratil
Born	1937 Zauchtel, Moravia
Nationality	German
Occupation(s)	Lawyer, author and human rights activist

Heinz Nawratil (born 1937 in Zauchtel, Moravia) is a German lawyer, legal author and human rights scholar and activist. He is known for his work on the expulsion of Germans after World War II, for his widely distributed legal textbooks aimed at law students, lawyers and lay people alike, as well as for his general human rights activism, particularly within the Society for Threatened Peoples. Born in Moravia, he is himself a survivor of the 1945 ethnic cleansing of Germans from his homeland.

Biography

After The Expulsion, he came as a refugee to Bavaria, where he grew up in Miesbach. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a civil law notary. He has written legal textbooks, which are published by the Ewald-von-Kleist-Verlag, the Universitas Verlag and Ullstein, and which have been printed in over a million copies. He has also published scientific works on human rights, particularly The Expulsion. He has written a large number of articles for the journals Parlament and academia, and has contributed to an introduction to social psychology.

Nawratil is an active member of the Society for Threatened Peoples, a human rights NGO with advisory status at the United Nations. In 2007, he was part of a delegation of the Society for Threatened Peoples that visited Kurdistan.

He has given lectures for the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Protestant Akademie Bad Boll, and been a guest of several Deutschlandfunk and RAI talk shows.

Selected publications

BGB leicht gemacht, Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 30th edition, 2008, ISBN 387440210X
Der Kult mit der Schuld. Geschichte im Unterbewusstsein, Universitas Verlag, 3rd edition, 2006, ISBN 3800414392
Die deutschen Nachkriegsverluste unter Vertriebenen, Gefangenen und Verschleppten, Ullstein, 1986, ISBN 3548330665, Neuauflage Ares-Verlag, Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-902475-49-7
Die Vertreibung der Deutschen : unbewältigte Vergangenheit Europas, Bund der Vertriebenen, 1991, ISBN 3-925103-47-3
HGB leicht gemacht, Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 21th edition, 2007, ISBN 3874402061
Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948. Das letzte Kapitel unbewältigter Vergangenheit, Universitas Verlag, 14th edition 2007, ISBN 3800413876
Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung, Ullstein, 5th edition 1987, ISBN 3548330843

Honours

Förderpreis der Stiftung der Deutschen Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände zur Förderung der Kommunalwissenschaften (1965)

References

External links

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