Grabert-Verlag together with its subsidiary Hohenrain-Verlag is one of the largest and best-known

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publishing houses in the

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. It is notorious for publishing

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works, for example those of

Wilhelm Stäglich Wilhelm Stäglich (11 November 1916 – 5 April 2006) was a World War II army officer, . later a financial judge in Hamburg, and a prominent Holocaust denier. Background Born on 11 November 1916, he studied law and political science at the Univ ...

. It also published works of

historical revisionism In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of a historical account. It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) scholarly views or narratives regarding a historical event, timespa ...

, such as

David Hoggan David Leslie Hoggan (March 23, 1923 – August 7, 1988) was an American author of ''The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed'' and other works in the German and English languages. He was antisemitic, maintained a close association wit ...

's ''Der erzwungene Krieg'' and books authored by

Holocaust deniers Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: *Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" wa ...

such as

Georg Franz-Willing Georg Franz-Willing (11 March 1915 – September 2008) was a German revisionist historian. He was a speaker at the Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review (IHR), where he was also one of the editors of their newsletter and published ...

. (1901–1978), a former senior civil servant and lecturer in

Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and he held several important posts in the Nazi government. He was the head o ...

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, founded a publishing house named ''Verlag der Deutschen Hochschullehrer-Zeitung'' (engl. "Publisher of the German University Teacher-Newspaper") in 1953. In 1961, Grabert published the book ''Der erzwungene Krieg'' (''The Forced War'') by David L. Hoggan, which blamed the outbreak of

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on an alleged Anglo-Polish

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to wage aggression against Germany. Hoggan's book became one of the many extreme-right wing, revisionist publications that followed. The book was a best seller significantly contributing to the commercial success of the publishing house. In 1974 Grabert named his publishing house after himself. His son Wigbert (born 1941) took over the management. He received a DM 30,000 fine after he had published a book by

Germar Rudolf Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964), also known as Germar Scheerer, is a German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier. Background Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. In 1983 he took his Abitur in Remscheid, then studied chemistry ...

denying the

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in 1994.

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