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Heinz Nawratil
Born1937
North Moravia
NationalityGermany German
Occupation(s)Lawyer, author and human rights activist

Heinz Nawratil (born 1937 in North Moravia) is a German lawyer, legal author and human rights activist.

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 books on legal subjects which have been printed in over a million copies. He is also known for his research on the expulsion of Germans after World War II.

Prof. Gotthold Rhode, a leading expert in Eastern European history, commented on Nawratil`s book "Die deutschen Nachkriegsverluste" (German Post-War Losses): "Nawratil`s small, clearly shaped book makes a contribution - by its objective, never accusing style - to not forgetting these victims." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16th Sept. 1987)

The book mentioned above was acknowledged in "Die Welt" of 7th Oct. 1986: "... that it is deserving to have presented the verifiable numbers concerning the German post-war losses at all."

The "Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung" (Blak Book of Expulsion), too, was almost universally acclaimed: "This book can be expected to become a classic." (Hessischer Rundfunk, 16th July 1983)

"Nawratil`s book helps to remove an information deficit." (Sender Freies Berlin, 07th Dec. 1983)

"Knowing that historic truth is indivisible, Heinz Nawratil relates what happened at the end of Word War II in the East of Europe. Properly, the author calls expulsion and crimes against Germans the last chapter of unconquered past." (Bayerischer Rundfunk, 29th May 1999)

"It is agood thing and necessary, too, Nawratil`s ... high quality synthesis ... is available again." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 08th June 1999)

"In his well documented study the author strives to find out the total number of expellees and of the victims of expulsion." (Die Welt, 08th Jan. 1983)

In a 2009 article, German historian Ingo Haar claims that Nawratil distorted evidence in his 1982 study on German victims of the flight and expulsion in 1945/6. German historian Martin Broszat (former head of the 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."

Because of his unobjective criticism, Broscat was rebuked and cautioned by the Bavarian State Government which is the supervisory authority of the Munich Institute. The original letter of the Bavarian State Government is shown on Nawratil`s home page.

In 2007 Nawratil was a member of delegations of the Society for Threatened Peoples visiting Iraqi Kurdistan and Bosnia.

Selected publications

  • BGB leicht gemacht, Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 30th edition, 2008, ISBN 3-87440-210-X
  • Der Kult mit der Schuld. Geschichte im Unterbewusstsein, Universitas Verlag, 3rd edition, 2006, ISBN 3-8004-1439-2
  • Die deutschen Nachkriegsverluste unter Vertriebenen, Gefangenen und Verschleppten, Ullstein, 1986, ISBN 3-548-33066-5, 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, 21st edition, 2007, ISBN 3-87440-206-1
  • Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948. Das letzte Kapitel unbewältigter Vergangenheit, Universitas Verlag, 14. Auflage 2007, ISBN 3-8004-1387-6
  • Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung, Ullstein, 5. Auflage 1987, ISBN 3-548-33084-3
  • Die Versöhnungsfalle/ Deutsche Beflissenheit und polnisches Selbstbewußtsein, Universitas Verlag, München 2011, ISBN 978-3-8004-1497-0

External links

References

  1. Ingo Haar: Die deutschen Vertreibungsverluste. Forschungsstand, Kontext und Probleme, in: Rainer Mackensen, Jürgen Reulecke, Josef Ehmer: Ursprünge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts "Bevölkerung" vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich": zur Geschichte der deutschen Bevölkerungswissenschaft., VS Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16152-5, p.373 ("Die bewußt verfälschende Darstellung Nawratils bei seiner Auswertung der Grauschrift des Kirchlichen Suchdienstes lag darin, dass er nach eigenen Angaben gar keine Kenntnis vom Original dieser Studie hatte.")
  2. Ingo Haar "Straty związane z wypędzeniami": stan badań, problemy, perspektywy. Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny t. 7 nr 5 (39) 2007

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