Walter Post

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Walter Post (born December 2, 1954 in Munich ) is a German political scientist and historical revisionist journalist . He is considered to be a representative of the refuted preventive war thesis .

Life

Post studied claims to political science , modern history and philosophy and was "policy China Soviet in the Brezhnev era" in 1990 on the subject of his doctorate . From 1990 to 1994 he held a teaching position for international politics at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Since 1995 he has been working as a freelance journalist specializing in military history. As such, he moves in the context of presentations and a. on the "preventive war" in the right-wing extremist , historical revisionist and ultra-right scene: State and Economic Political Society , Contemporary History Research Center Ingolstadt , Fraternity Danubia Munich , Society for Free Journalism , Institute for State Politics , Carinthian Cultural Days ( Deutsches Kulturwerk Österreich ), German Kulturwerk European Spirit , Aid Community on mutuality of members of the former Waffen-SS Stuttgart, school association for the promotion of Russian Germans in East Prussia and working group for German politics. Post is a member of the board of directors of the right-wing extremist Continent Europe Foundation run by Patrik Brinkmann . As an author he wrote a. a. for the right leaves Junge Freiheit , Die Aula and Criticón . He also published since 1999 in right-wing publishing houses such as the Pour le Merite publishing of Dietmar Munier .

In 2008 he ran in the Munich city council election at number 4 of the right-wing extremist citizens' movement Pro Munich .

reception

He is considered a history revisionist. The Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein wrote about Post's book Enterprises Barbarossa : “You learn a lot of instructive information from the Post book, only the author is either partial - he praises the almost illegible Joachim Hoffmann - or he doesn't know enough. The word 'hypocritical' will only be found in application to Soviet people. "

The historian Dieter Pohl reviewed the yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe : Post negiere u. a. the "racial ideological war aims of Hitler" and belittled Nazi crimes . The book is suitable for an “operationally historical and politically one-sided audience”. However, new findings for research are not to be expected.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Operation Barbarossa. German and Soviet attack plans 1940/41 . With a foreword by Paul Carell , Mittler, Hamburg [u. a.] 1995, ISBN 3-8132-0481-2 . (2nd edition, 1996)
  • The slandered army. Wehrmacht and anti-Wehrmacht propaganda . Pour le Mérite, Selent 1999, ISBN 3-932381-08-4 .
  • The causes of the Second World War. An outline of international diplomacy from Versailles to Pearl Harbor (= publications of the Institute for German Post-War History, Volume 31). Grabert, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-87847-205-6 .
  • Hitler's Europe. The European Economic Community 1940–1945 . With an introduction by Otto Scrinzi , Druffel & Vowinckel, Stegen am Ammersee 2011, ISBN 978-3-8061-1213-9 .
  • 1914. The unnecessary war . Druffel & Vowinckel , Gilching 2014, ISBN 978-3-8061-1240-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil , Sven Felix Kellerhoff : German legends: From the "Dolchsto" and other myths of history . Links, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-257-3 , p. 110 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Historian Walter Post is supposed to stand for the 2008 local elections on the “Pro Munich” list , Antifascist Information, Documentation and Archive Office Munich , November 14, 2007.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Martin Dietzsch , Siegfried Jäger , Helmut Kellershohn , Alfred Schobert : Nation instead of democracy. Being and design of "Junge Freiheit" . 2nd unchanged edition, Unrast, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-733-6 , p. 211.
  4. ^ A b Robert Andreasch: Origin and activities of the "Citizens' Movement PRO MÜNCHEN" . In: Alexander Häusler (Ed.): Right-wing populism as a "citizen movement". Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15919-5 , p. 113.
  5. ^ Jürgen Förster : Review: The Russo-German Conflict as Part of the Second World War . In: Contemporary European History 6 (1997) 1, pp. 145–148, here: p. 147.
  6. ↑ Rudolf Augstein: "Barbarossa" with a difference . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1996, pp. 100-101 ( Online - Feb. 5, 1996 ).
  7. ^ Dieter Pohl : Operation Barbarossa. German and Soviet attack plans 1940/41 by Walter Post . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe , New Series, Volume 46, Issue 2 (1998), p. 310.
personal data
SURNAME Post, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich