GERMAR RUDOLF · RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY Germar Rudolf Resistance Is Obligatory Address to the Mannheim District Court 15 November 2006 to 29 January 2007 Castle Hill Publishers P.O. Box 243, Uckfield, TN22 9AW, UK April 2012 Germar Rudolf: Resistance Is Obligatory: Address to the Mannheim District Court 15 November 2006 to 29 January 2007 Uckfield, UK: CASTLE HILL PUBLISHERS P.O. Box 243, Uckfield, TN22 9AW, UK April 2012Uckfield (East Sussex): Castle Hill Publishers PO Box 243, Uckfield TN22 9AW, UK ISBN: 978-1-59148-030-3 © by Germar Rudolf 50% of the proceeds from the sales of this book will be paid to the author. Set in Times New Roman. www.GermarRudolf.com If this site cannot be reached, please try an anonymizing service. Cover: In the background Galileo Galilei. Below from left to right and top to bottom: Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, Karl. R. Popper, Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi. www.vho.org/GB/books/rio GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY Contents page Foreword by Daniel McGowan ............................................................ 9 A. Introduction .................................................................................... 31 I. A Peaceful Dissident’s Ordeal ................................................... 31 II. General Remarks about my Defense .......................................... 49 B. Scientific Considerations ................................................................ 51 I. The Human Aspect ..................................................................... 51 1. Conflict between the State and the Curiosity Creature .......... 51 2. Urge for Truth and Human Dignity ........................................ 57 II. Essentials .................................................................................... 58 III.Principles .................................................................................... 61 IV.The German Constitutional High Court on the Definition of Science ....................................................................................... 92 V. Science and the Public ................................................................. 95 C. Judicial Considerations .................................................................. 99 I. A Comparison of Two Systems of Justice ................................. 99 II. Definition of a Political Prisoner .............................................. 109 III.Development of the Law .......................................................... 116 IV.Legal Situation ......................................................................... 122 1. Prime Guideline ................................................................... 122 2. Civil Rights and Conflicting Civil Rights ............................ 122 3. Protection of the Youth ........................................................ 129 4. Arbitrary Interpretation of Terms (Immunization against Criticism) ............................................................................ 136 D. Specific Considerations ................................................................ 143 I. General Remarks ...................................................................... 143 1. Identification with NS Measures of Persecution .................. 143 2. Exoneration of National-Socialism ...................................... 144 3. Passion ................................................................................. 147 II. Promotion Brochure ................................................................. 147 1. False Quote ........................................................................... 148 2. Omission of Exonerating Passages ...................................... 148 5 GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY III.Lectures on the Holocaust ........................................................ 151 1. General Accusations ............................................................. 152 2. Quotes .................................................................................. 153 3. Withheld Statements ............................................................ 157 4. Summary .............................................................................. 161 IV.Additional Judicial Observations ............................................. 162 V. Decisions of the Federal Assessment Agency for Media Endangering the Youth ............................................................ 165 1. Concentration Camp Stutthof ............................................... 166 2. Concentration Camp Majdanek ............................................ 167 3. Giant with Feet of Clay ........................................................ 168 4. Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Research .................... 169 5. The Rudolf Report ................................................................ 170 6. Auschwitz: Plain Facts ......................................................... 172 7. The Hoax of the Twentieth Century ..................................... 173 8. Conclusion ............................................................................ 174 E. Resistance ...................................................................................... 177 I. Fundamentals ........................................................................... 177 II. The State as the Target of Resistance ....................................... 180 III.Resistance in the FR Germany ................................................. 185 IV.Remedy .................................................................................... 194 1. Parliamentary Remedy ......................................................... 194 2. Legal Remedy ...................................................................... 196 3. Remedy by Civil Rights Organizations ................................ 196 4. Remedy by Public Protest .................................................... 197 5. Remedy by Scholars ............................................................. 197 6. Remedy by the Media .......................................................... 200 V. Violence ................................................................................... 204 Postscriptum ............................................................................. 206 6 GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY F. Conclusion ..................................................................................... 209 G. Path of Most Resistance ............................................................... 219 H. Appendices .................................................................................... 223 Appendix 1: Quotes on the Misuse of the NS Persecution of Jews .......................................................................................... 223 Appendix 2: Motions to Introduce Evidence and Their Rejection .................................................................................. 230 Appendix 3: Assessments by Expert Historians ............................. 256 1. Dr. Olaf Rose ....................................................................... 256 2. Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte ............................................................ 262 3. Critique of Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte’s Assessment ................... 292 Appendix 4: Unconstitutional Historical Dictate ........................... 305 Appendix 5: Intercession by Professors ......................................... 312 Appendix 6: Book Burning ............................................................ 337 Appendix 7: The Verdict ................................................................ 339 I. General Considerations ......................................................... 339 II. Prelude ................................................................................. 340 III. The Deal ............................................................................. 341 IV. The Pleas ............................................................................ 343 V. The Oral Verdict .................................................................. 343 VI. The Written Verdict ........................................................... 351 Appendix 8: Declarations by Defense Lawyers ............................. 355 Appendix 9: Defense prohibited ..................................................... 362 Appendix 10: Life Continues ......................................................... 366 7 GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY Birthday, © Germar Rudolf 2006 A little over two months after my arrest in the U.S. and after my deporta- tion to Germany, at the beginning of the Christmas church service of 2005 in the Stuttgart-Stammheim penitentiary, every inmate received a red rose. I tied mine to a shelf board in my cell so that it would dry. Not quite two months later I drew this rose with a ball point pen based on my shriveled-up dry rose (unshriveling it in my mind) and sent it to my wife on occasion of the first birthday of our daughter. This was the start of roughly two years of artistic activities behind bars. Some of the pencil drawings on paper are reproduced in this book. 8 GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY Foreword by Daniel McGowan I am Not a Holocaust Denier I have never voiced or written an opinion on the veracity of the sa- cred tenets of the predominant contemporary Holocaust narrative. Those who support that narrative1 and those who would revise it both agree that these tenets can be reduced to three simple beliefs, namely 1) that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, 2) that