The Metropol Verlag is a German

Germany

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 publishing house, established in 1988 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading publishers on the Nazi era

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 and the history of the GDR

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

.

The company was founded in Berlin

Berlin

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 by Friedrich Veitl. Together with S. Fischer

S. Fischer Verlag

The German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag was founded in 1886 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin and is a leading German address for literary publications and fiction.Originally, it was renowned for naturalism literature...

, Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Kiepenheuer & Witsch is a German publishing house, established in 1951 by Joseph C. Witsch in Cologne. Among the authors it published are Joseph Roth, Heinrich Böll, Günter Wallraff, and Gabriel García Márquez....

, Rowohlt

Rowohlt

Rowohlt Verlag is a publishing house based in Reinbek and also Hamburg and Berlin, part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group . The company was created in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt.- Parts of the company :* Kindler Verlag...

, and other publishers, it was a member of the "Article 19 publisher", who in 1989 printed Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters...

in Germany. Metropol publishes mainly books in German. Exhibition catalogs also appear in an English edition.

According to Open Library

Open Library

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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

Wannsee Conference

The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich...

by Kurt Pätzold and Erika Schwarz Tagesordnung: Judenmord ("Agenda: Jews Murder"; 4th edition 1998).

External links

• Company overview at Zeitgeschichte-online