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Heinz Nawratil (born 1937 in Suchdol nad Odrou/Zauchtel, Czechoslovakia) is a German lawyer and legal author. He is particularly known for his work on expulsion of Germans after World War II. He has also written for the Institute for Historical Review, which has been described as the "world's leading Holocaust denial organization.


Biography

After World War II Nawratil settled in Bavaria, West Germany, 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 have been printed in over a million copies.

German historian Martin Broszat (former head of Institute of Contemporary History 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."

Nawratil's book Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948 has been described in a review by James Bjork from Depertment of History of King's College London 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 Nazi regime, while completely ignoring works from Eastern Europe (regardless if they were published before or after 1989).

Besides his books, Heinz Nawratil also wrote a "diatribe" in honor of Alfred Schickel who heads the Research Institute for Contemporary History in Ingolstadt, known for Holocaust denial, and according to Michael Schmidt's book "The new Reich: violent extremism in unified Germany and beyond" an enthusiastic historical revisionist, criticized by Der Spiegel as a "far right historian working for the relief of National Socialism". Nawratil in his diatribe names Schickel as "obsessed with objectivity"

Nawratil has also published articles alongside the likes of Jorg Haider and DVU Chief Gerhard Frey in Grabert Verlag publication . The Grabert Verlag has been described as a leading right wing publisher in Germany specializing in Holocaust denial, 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 . It has also been the major publisher of Holocaust denial literature in the United States.

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, 14. Auflage 2007, ISBN 3800413876
  • Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung, Ullstein, 5. Auflage 1987, ISBN 3548330843

External links

References

  1. Kevin Coogan, "The mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?", HITLIST magazine, April/May 2002.
  2. CNN, 3/5/2002, Insight. Similar descriptions are used by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, National Review (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.
  3. Ingo Haar "Straty związane z wypędzeniami": stan badań, problemy, perspektywy. Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny t. 7 nr 5 (39) 2007
  4. James Bjork Visual Education about Historical Trauma, February, 2009, H-Net
  5. http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/10/1/Nawratil118-122.html
  6. Der Spiegel 47/ v. 22. 11/1193
  7. The new Reich: violent extremism in unified Germany and beyond Michael Schmidt page 186 New York : Pantheon Books, c1993.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. Vgl. Organisationsunabhängige rechtsextremistische Verlage in Baden-Württemberg: "GRABERT-Verlag"/"Hohenrain-Verlag"
  11. The study of religion under the impact of fascism Horst Junginger page 168 Brill Academic Publishers 2007)
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