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The Metropol Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1988 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading publishers on the
Nazi era Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...
and the history of the
GDR East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...
. The company was founded in
West Berlin West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1 ...
by Friedrich Veitl. Together with S. Fischer,
Kiepenheuer & Witsch Kiepenheuer & Witsch is a German publishing house, established in 1948 by Joseph C. Witsch and Gustav Kiepenheuer. The partners initially held 30% and 40% of the company's share capital respectively. The publisher is based in Cologne, Germany an ...
, Rowohlt, and other publishers, it was a member of the “Article 19 publisher”, who in 1989 printed Salman Rushdie ''
The Satanic Verses ''The Satanic Verses'' is the fourth novel from the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical re ...
'' in Germany. Metropol publishes mainly books in German. Exhibition catalogs also appear in an English edition. According to
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Metropol publishes about 35 books a year. The most successful works include Eugen Herman-Friede's autobiography ''Für Freudensprünge keine Zeit'' (“No time to jump for joy”; 5th edition 2002) and the documentary about the Wannsee Conference by
Kurt Pätzold Kurt Pätzold (3 May 1930, in Wrocław – 18 August 2016, Berlin) was a German Marxist historian. Life In 1945 Kurt Pätzold moved with his family to Thüringen (Turingia). From 1948 to 1953 he studied History, Philosophy, and Political Scienc ...
and Erika Schwarz ''Tagesordnung: Judenmord'' (“Agenda: Jews Murder”; 4th edition 1998).List of publications at Open Library.
Retrieved 2010-12-09. It also publishes the former East German ''Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft'' (Journal of Historical Science) and the yearly periodical '' Voyage. Studies on Travel & Tourism''.


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Company overview at Zeitgeschichte-online
{{Authority control Companies established in 1988 Book publishing companies of Germany Companies based in Berlin Mass media in Berlin