Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
Yet even in cases dealt with by the lower County Courts it can be arranged
that in political cases no appeal will be filed, as the case of the
right-wing publishing company Grabert proves. In June of 1996 the
owner of that company stood trial at the County Court Tübingen for
having published the book Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, which I had
edited. 125 During that trial the late expert witness Dr. Joachim Hoffmann,
who had been a director at the German government Research
Institute for Military History (Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt) in
Freiburg, testified to the effect that this my book was scientific in nature,
as a result of which it ought to enjoy the protection of freedom of
science according to article 5, paragraph 3, of the German Basic Law.
Yet the County Court Tübingen simply ignored this expert opinion and
sentenced Mr. Grabert anyway. After the latter had filed an appeal
against that decision, the prosecution informed him unofficially that his
publishing company would be subjected to constant house searches and
book confiscation, if he does not withdraw his appeal. And indeed,
since Mr. Grabert had to endure a spring tide of house searches and
book confiscations already during the years 1995/1996, he knew that
this was no empty threat, so he withdrew his appeal. Grabert’s copy
editor told me this several years ago after I had inquired about the state
of the case, since I had hoped that the confiscation of my book would
eventually be dealt with by the German Constitutional High Court.
And such events and general conditions are then claimed to be the
features of a state under the rule of law.
Now to the second quote of the unnamed author:
“Even if you were to speak in your own defense with the eloquence
of Demosthenes [ 126 …] it would not help you in the slightest.
All you could do would be to increase your sentence […].” (1/294)
That’s the same with trials against historical dissidents in Germany,
because if I tried here to prove my historical views, then this would
probably result in the court’s charge of my being incorrigible and even
obdurate, which would lead to an even more severe punishment. Or the
prosecutor would even initiate a new criminal investigation against me,
as I would be committing the same crime of “denial” once more during
a public trial.
125 Ernst Gauss (ed. = Germar Rudolf), Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, Grabert, Tübingen 1994
(www.vho.org/D/gzz); Engl.: G. Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, Capshaw, AL, 2000;
2nd ed., Theses & Dissertations Press Chicago 2003 (www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth).
126 Leading Greek orator and leading statesman of Athens (384-322 B.C.).
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