Gustav Sussmann

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Gustav Süßmann (Staufenberg-Landwehrhagen) is a right-wing extremist publicist and amateur historian. As such, he represents historical revisionist views and a. about the National Socialist camp system .

Life

Sussmann publishes his works mostly self-published in Staufenberg . Copies of his books have been sent to various German libraries and are therefore very widespread in lending. Some libraries responded to criticism from readers and withdrew the volumes from lending. From the point of view of serious historical studies it is problematic that works by Süßmann are regularly listed as references and in lists of literature.

In 1988 his work Das Hildebrandlied - fälscht? , in which he asserts that the Old High German Hildebrand song was a forgery by its discoverer, Johann Georg von Eckhart , and that it was forged once again during a conspiracy by Jewish art dealers during his stay in the USA after the Second World War .

The revisionist tendency of The Police Youth Protection Camp Moringen , published in 1994 , provoked indignant reactions from serious historians who opposed the trivialization of the events in the Moringen youth concentration camp 1940–1945.

Fonts

  • The Hildebrand song - fake? An investigation. Self-published, Staufenberg 1988, ISBN 3-9800664-6-0 .
  • The churches of the higher court. Self-published, Staufenberg 1984, ISBN 3-9800664-5-2 .
  • Fortresses must die too. The investigation of the plane crash on March 2nd, 1945 near Benterode. 1981, ISBN 3-9800664-0-1 .
  • Herr von Schlieffen's monkeys - legend or reality? 1983, ISBN 3-9800664-3-6 .
  • The "boundary stone nest" between Landwehrhagen and Sandershausen. Self-published, Staufenberg 1982, ISBN 3-9800664-1-X .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Hans Hesse: Süßmann ( Memento from February 17, 2001 in the Internet Archive ). Hans Hesse's website.
  2. Gustav Süssmann: The Hildebrand song - fake? An investigation. Self-published, Staufenberg 1988.