VDM Heinz Nickel

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VDM Heinz Nickel
founding   1986
Seat   Zweibrücken
publisher   Heinz Nickel
Publisher number   978-3-86619
978-3-925480
genus   Militaria , model making , contemporary history , military history
Website   www.vdmedien24.de
Office and warehouse of VDM Heinz Nickel

The Verlagsdruckerei Medienvertrieb Heinz Nickel short VDM Heinz Nickel is a German publisher and bookseller with headquarters in Zweibrücken . The publishing house, named after its publisher Heinz Nickel , publishes several magazines with a focus on model making , aviation , and militaria .

VDM Heinz Nickel also includes Bayerische Militärverlag, Schriften der Geschichte Mecklenburgs (SGM), Blessa Verlag (fiction), F-40 (the planes of the Bundeswehr ), Biblio Verlag, Olms-Edition and the right-wing extremist Schild-Verlag, which was taken over in 2004 . The publications of the Schild-Verlag are distributed as "VDMedien SCHILD VERLAG", including "Grenadiers" of the convicted war criminal Kurt Meyer , which was also published in a new edition in 2006 by VDM Nickel.

In addition to the company's own book production, there is also a book distribution company whose " Contemporary History " division focuses on the history of the Second World War and in some cases also offers historical revisionist literature.

Magazine program

The publisher publishes the following special-interest magazines on aviation, model making and military history:

  • Internationales Militaria Magazin - The current magazine for orders, militaria and military history (first edition 1990),
  • JET & PROP - Airplanes from yesterday and today in the original and in the model (first edition 1991),
  • Steelmaster - wheeled and tracked vehicles from yesterday and today in the original and model (first edition 1994),
  • Wingmaster - aviation, history, model making (first edition 1998).

The German Soldier's Yearbook , which was previously published by Schild-Verlag, also appeared at times via VDM Heinz Nickel.

Book production

The books published by the publisher also include works by those who participated in the war who were revered as war heroes in the Third Reich. For example, the book Grenadiers des SS-Officier, HIAG -functionär and convicted war criminal Kurt Meyer , which first appeared in many editions in 1957 in the right-wing extremist Schild-Verlag, and in the 11th edition in 2006 it was published by VDM Heinz Nickel. This book is one of the most devastating, apologetic and tendentious literature by former SS soldiers.

Another example is the training and deployment of a night fighter in World War II - memories from the war diary (VDM Nickel, 2006) by Heinz Rökker . According to the publisher's description of the book, Rökker is a “ Knight's Cross bearer with oak leaves, was squadron captain of the 2./Nachtjagdgeschwader 2. In this book he writes down his memories that he experienced during training and during World War II. It is the view of a man who, like many of his generation, was abused by politics, but who was doing their military duty in action. "

This series, even if the book author Thomas Fischer only compiles the experiences of Wilhelm Mohnke , also includes the book Die Defense der Reichskanzlei 1945 , which was published in two editions in the Schild-Verlag edition in 2007 and 2008. Kampfkommandant Mohnke reports .

The publisher publishes books on military topics, especially the Third Reich, whose authors are laypeople in the field of military history and whose target group is to be found in the field of military hobby books. This includes Jens Grützner, an industrial clerk born in 1966 who published about Captain Ernst Lindemann - the Bismarck Commander (2010). The publisher points out that the book was written “[with] the support of the Lindemann family and surviving eyewitnesses”. It also contains, as “an interesting historical document, 'Lindemann's diary', which he wrote as a corvette captain during the Spanish Civil War, a detailed chapter dedicated to it. Numerous comments and many previously unpublished photos and documents round off the biography of this extraordinary naval officer. ”Likewise lay authors are the mechanical engineer Sven Carlsen, born in 1963, and the businessman Michael Meyer, who was born in 1960 and published in 1998 by the German Air Force pilot training 1935-1945. Volume I. From basic training to blind flight school published.

Special editions of books that are of interest in the field of militaria , that is, of interest to hobby collectors, are also part of the publishing program. This includes, for example, Jörg Nimmergut : The Iron Cross 1813–1957. History of the labeling system. Special edition. (1997). Nimmergut is a lateral entrant in religious orders without a specialist degree.

In 1991, with the support of the Military History Research Office (MGFA), the publishing house published a catalog for a special exhibition of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden on German admirals from 1848 to 1945.

Book service

The online offer (as of June 2012) under the heading “Contemporary History” has numerous offers that show a historical revisionist direction through topics, authors and marketed publishers.

  • An author who is represented several times is Franz Kurowski . He is among other things with his seven-volume work “ This is how World War II was ”. The first edition of the right-wing publisher Gert Sudholt for the publishing company Berg , that is the right-wing extremist Druffel-Verlag , was described by Hans Sarkowicz as a “ German national battle painting ”. Two other books by Kurowski deal with the military defeat: Army Wenck : The 12th Army between Elbe and Oder - Final Battle for Berlin (published by the Support Group for German History ) and Unconditional Surrender: Inferno in Germany 1945 (published by Druffel-Verlag) and two about the aerial warfare over Germany: Chronicle of the bombing war (published by Motorbuch Verlag or Flechsig-Verlag and Dresden - February 1945. Keith Stimely reviewed Kurowki's book Unconditional Surrender in the historical revisionist Journal of Historical Review of the Institute for Historical Review , the world's leading organization of Holocaust denial He certified the work that it operates “General history, from a revisionist perspective.” Kurowski's books on the air raids on Dresden show historical revisionist tendencies and in part use figures and factual assertions that have long been disproved by specialist science, some of which are still open Declarations of the Propaganda Ministry decline.
  • The right-wing extremist Arndt-Verlag is represented with several books: Capital of the Movement - Munich 1939-1941 , Bernhard Frank : As Hitler's Commander - From Wewelsburg to Berghof or Henry Pedersen : Germanic Volunteers - As a Danish Waffen SS man on the Eastern Front , Theodor Kellenter : The legacy of Hitler - continuing buildings, inventions, laws and ordinances from the Third Reich - a lexicon.
  • In addition, there is the Winkelried publishing house with Eric Kaden : The word as a weapon. The propaganda war of the Waffen-SS and the SS standard Kurt Eggers , or Felix Steiner: General of the Waffen-SS from the German Voice Publishing House and from the Kopp Verlag, known for conspiracy theories : Edgar Mayer & Thomas Mehner: Die Lügen der Alliierten und die German miracle weapons - The Third Reich, the atomic bomb and August 6, 1945 . In 2005, the right-wing extremist DSZ-Verlag published Astrid Horn's highlights of German history , Frank Bauer and Gert Pfeifers Erinnern - Bewiegen - Nacherleben in Kurt Vowinckel-Verlag .
  • Other books that have been sold raise the question of war guilt and answer it in a historical revisionist manner. These include, for example, "The War That Had Many Fathers - The Long Run-Up to World War II" by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, published in several editions by Olzog Verlag or Der Tag M - Stalin mobilizes to attack Germany , published by Viktor by Pour le Merite Verlag Suvorov , who advocates the preventive war thesis, according to which Adolf Hitler forestalled an attack by Josef Stalin .
  • Personal memory reports from those involved in the war are also part of the range, examples include:
  • Anton Weissteiner : In a lost position - South Tyroleans on distant fronts: memories of the Second World War . Athesia , Bozen 2004.
  • Jean Mabire : Berlin in agony in 1945 - French volunteers of the Waffen-SS as the last defenders of the Reich Chancellery . Pour le Mérite (December 2011)
  • Bodo Kleine : Before the memory fades - As an infantryman on the Eastern Front between Voronezh and Koenigsberg - prisoner of war in Russia Helios Verlag
  • Peter Gosztony : The fight for Berlin 1945 in eyewitness reports . Motorbuch Verlag
  • Jürgen Kalwa : The rest was devastated - Johannes Buchmann's memories of the air war in the Mediterranean Sea and an adventurous escape from Soviet captivity . Helios publishing house
  • Walter Hack : The obligation - a childhood in Brazil under the Southern Cross - an early youth in Germany under the swastika . Helios publishing house

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint. In: bayerischer -milverlag.de. Accessed in 2017 .
  2. ^ German Soldiers' Yearbook in the German National Library
  3. ^ Charles W. Sydnor Jr.: The History of the SS Totenkopfdivision and the Postwar Mythology of the Waffen SS. In: Central European History (1973), 6: pp 339-362 "Kurt Meyer's popular Grenadiers (Munich, 1957), is perhaps the boldest and most truculent of the apologist works, arguing flatly that the Waffen SS was never involved in the commission of criminal acts. Not all of the apologist literature, however, is so tendentious. " (P. 341) truculent can be translated as devastating, the other meanings would be: cruel, coarse, destructive, stubborn, wild www.leo.org
  4. ↑ Information from the publisher's report DNB. Retrieved June 26, 2012
  5. ↑ This work is based on statements of the SS Brigadefuhrer Mohnke and, according to the publisher's information, gives "Interna from the power center of the 3rd Reich" (information on the publisher's page for the book)
  6. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / portal.dnb.de  
  7. ↑ Content text DNB
  8. ^ Author information DNB. Retrieved February 26, 2012
  9. ↑ Author information DNB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / portal.dnb.de  
  10. ^ Axel Turra, Manfred Hagenacker: German Admirals. Marine history impressions 1848 to 1945. Exhibition catalog. Zweibrücken 1991.
  11. ^ Christian-Wilhelm von Prittwitz and Gaffron: 100 Years of the Museum in the Dresden Arsenal (1897–1997). A font for the anniversary. Army Collection, Arsenal Collection, Royal Saxon Army Museum, Saxon Army Museum, Heeresmuseum Dresden, Army Museum Dresden, Dresden City Collections, Army Museum of the GDR, Military History Museum Dresden, Dresden 1997, p. 233; List of publications of the MGFA .
  12. ^ Hans Sarkowicz: Journalism of the gray and brown zone . In: Wolfgang Benz Hrsg .: Right-wing extremism in Germany . Fischer Verlag Frankfurt Main (1994), p. 78. Each volume “So War der 2.Warden” deals with a “war year” from 1939. In 2007, volumes 1–4 were published as special editions by Flechsig Verlag. 1939: the year of the decision; 1940: Blitzkrieg; 1941: The road to world war; 1942: The world at war; Volumes 5–7 followed in 2008 by the same publisher. 1943: Die Wende; 1944: The withdrawals; 1945: The collapse. (Entries from DNB )
  13. ↑ Keith Stimely is a well-known employee (English "notable staff") of IHR until 1984. Website of the Anti-Defamation League via the IHR adl.org ( memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 14, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org
  14. ↑ Reviewed by Keith Stimely. Journal of Historical Review, volume 5 no. 2, 3, 4 (Winter 1984), p. 420. http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v05/v05p415_Stimely.html accessed on March 12, 2012
  15. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil, Sven Felix Kellerhoff: German legends: from the "dagger stab" and other myths of history. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2002. P. 136 Review by Perlentaucher
  16. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Append a zero. How many people died in the Dresden firestorm in 1945? In: Die Welt , January 25, 2005
  17. ↑ Richard Evans: David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: (D) Unreliable testimony: the Red Cross, Walter Kleiner, and Karl Mehnert.
  18. ^ Matthias Meinhard: The myth of the 'Old Dresden' as a blueprint. In: Andreas Ranft, Stephan Selzer Hrsg. (2004): Cities out of ruins: Disaster management between antiquity and modernity. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht p. 175 online
  19. ^ Bastiaan Robert von Benda-Beckmann (2010): A German catastrophe? German historians and the Allied bombings , 1945 Chapter 3: A Past becomes History. The professionalizing of military historiography of the air was in the Federal Republic since the 1970s, accessed online on March 18, 2012, here pp. 173, 174, 204, 206.
  20. ^ Bastiaan Robert von Benda-Beckmann (2010): A German catastrophe? German historians and the Allied bombings , 1945 Chapter 1: Putting the Allies on trial. Historical accounts of the Allied air was in the early Federal Republic , 1945–1970, accessed online on March 19, 2012. pp. 87f. (Presentation of Fuller's function for these German authors), p. 90 (Presentation of Fuller's political affiliation), p. 91 (Reference to the use of Fuller's statements by Kurowski).

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