Heinz Gottfried Nawratil (18 June 1937 in
Suchdol nad Odrou
Suchdol nad Odrou (german: Zauchtenthal, Zauchtel) is a market town in Nový Jičín District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
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,
Czechoslovakia
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– 15 May 2015) was a German lawyer, legal author and human rights activist.
After World War II Nawratil settled in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
,
West Germany
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, where he grew up in
Miesbach
Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a popu ...
. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a
civil law notary beginning in 1970. He was awarded the Förderpreis of the »Stiftung der Deutschen Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände zur Förderung der Kommunalwissenschaften« in 1965. He is also known for his research on the
expulsion of Germans after World War II
Expulsion or expelled may refer to:
General
* Deportation
* Ejection (sports)
* Eviction
* Exile
* Expeller pressing
* Expulsion (education)
* Expulsion from the United States Congress
* Extradition
* Forced migration
* Ostracism
* Persona ...
, which has been criticized by German historian
Martin Broszat
Martin Broszat (14 August 1926 – 14 October 1989) was a German historian specializing in modern German social history. As director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich from 1972 until his deat ...
(former head of
Institute of Contemporary History in Munich) as "polemics with a nationalist-rightist point of view". Borszat wrote about Nawratil that he "exaggerates in an absurd manner the scale of 'expulsion crimes'".
[Ursprünge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts "Bevölkerung" vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich" Zur Geschichte der deutschen Bevölkerungswissensch: ''Ingo Haar Die deutschen ›Vertreibungsverluste‹ – Forschungsstand, Kontexte und Probleme, in Ursprünge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts "Bevölkerung" vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich"'' Springer 2009: Page 373]
Selected publications
*''BGB leicht gemacht'', Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 30th edition, 2008,
*''Der Kult mit der Schuld. Geschichte im Unterbewusstsein'', Universitas Verlag, 3rd edition, 2006,
*''Die deutschen Nachkriegsverluste unter Vertriebenen, Gefangenen und Verschleppten'',
Ullstein, 1986, , Neuauflage
Ares-Verlag, Graz 2008,
*''Die Vertreibung der Deutschen : unbewältigte Vergangenheit Europas'',
Bund der Vertriebenen, 1991,
*''HGB leicht gemacht'', Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 21st edition, 2007,
*''Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948. Das letzte Kapitel unbewältigter Vergangenheit'', Universitas Verlag, 14. Auflage 2007,
*''Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung'',
Ullstein, 5. Auflage 1987,
*''Die Versöhnungsfalle/Deutsche Beflissenheit und polnisches Selbstbewußtsein, München 2011,
References
External links
*
Die große Flucht: Umsiedlung, Vertreibung und Integration der deutschen Bevölkerung, Reviewed by James BjorkHomepage of Dr. Heinz Nawratil
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20th-century German lawyers
People from Suchdol nad Odrou
People from Miesbach (district)
1937 births
2015 deaths
Moravian-German people
Naturalized citizens of Germany
Sudeten German people