Arndt_Verlag
Arndt Verlag
German neo-Nazi publishing house
Arndt Verlag is a German publishing house that belongs to the publishing group of the neo-Nazi publisher Dietmar Munier [de]. It specialises in historical negationist literature. Arndt's authors include David Irving, Wilfred von Oven, Franz Kurowski and Franz W. Seidler.
Status | Active |
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Founded | 1963; 61 years ago (1963) |
Country of origin | West Germany Germany |
Headquarters location | Kiel |
Key people | Dietmar Munier [de] |
Fiction genres | Historical negationism Holocaust denial Militaria |
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 Dietmar Munier [de] 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.[1]
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".[2] The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentions the publishing house in its reports for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[3] 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.[4]
Arndt Verlag's authors included Holocaust deniers and pro-Nazi authors such as:
- David Irving
- Franz Kurowski
- Wilfred von Oven
- Franz W. Seidler
- Gustav Sichelschmidt [de]
- Günter Zehm [de]
- Nadja Münch und Gabriele Nandlinger. "Arndt-Verlag". Glossar der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Dossier Rechtsextremismus 2010 (in German). BIKnetz. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- Innenministerium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein. "Verfassungschutzbericht 2007 des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, S. 56ff" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- Verfassungsschutzbericht 2009, S. 136 ff., Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010, p. 114, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011, pp. 115, 117; Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, p. 129.
- Bundesverfassungsschutz: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, p. 130.