The former university lecturer Herbert Grabert and later founder of the Grabert publishing house was active in the 1920s and 1930s, among other things, in the context of a national-socialist "German Faith Movement", which promoted a Germanic-neo-pagan, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic "Third Confession" for the "Third Reich" before Herbert Grabert recognized National Socialism as part of his faith. From 1936 he worked as a National Socialist religious and cultural scientist and historian. Because of the views he advocated, he was unable to continue his university career after 1945.
As part of his lobbying activities for the rehabilitation of former academic Nazi criminals and ideologists, Herbert Grabert, who was banned from his profession and still professed to be a National Socialist, founded the publishing house of the German University Teachers' Newspaper in 1953. This organ was aimed at people who, like himself, were not allowed to hold academic positions. In 1974 the publishing house was renamed Grabert Verlag.
Since the 1960s, the publisher and authors have been trying to reassert strategic, nationalistic and nationalist-racist thinking as well as anti-Semitic resentment. Among other things, authors from the Grabert publishing houses made contributions to the establishment of revisionist falsifications of history. German war guilt and the Holocaust are relativized or denied. The relevant works include the German translation of the book The Forced War which explored the causes and originators of World War II. The British author David L. Hoggan argues the hair-raising thesis that Great Britain and Poland instigated the Second World War and that Hitler only reacted defensively to foreign aggression.
The publication of such writings did not go unnoticed: as early as 1960, Herbert Grabert was sentenced to imprisonment for publishing the no less obscure book People without Leadership (also a Hoggan translation). In the following decades, despite repeated indexations and convictions, the ideological orientation of the publishing program did not change: With Wilhelm Sdling's The Auschwitz Myth (1979) or Carl-Friedrich Berg's book Wolfsgesellschaft (1995), the publishing house had further indexations, the most recent dates from 2013, when the management of the publishing house passed from Wigbert to Bernhard Grabert in the third generation. In 2021, Grabert Verlag ceased its activities until further notice.
