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

3. Passion
GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
The indictment opines on p. 4 that the writings disseminated by me
have the tendency “to have an increased and intense effect upon the
senses and passions of the reader.” This expression is extremely imprecise.
It is not even clear whether this is an indictable accusation, a factual
statement, or maybe even a praise. Authors and publishers who fail
to arouse the passion of their reader for their texts have failed their profession.
And of course this arousal happens via the senses.
The subject of the writings offered by me until recently is by their
very nature fraught with emotions. Because views contradicting the
predominant opinion frequently have a passionate and intense effect
upon the reader even if they have been expressed drily and in a factual
way, which is true for most of the writings offered by me. Objectively
seen, most of them are so dry and factual that they must be called boring.
If the reader reacts to them passionately anyway, then this is due to
the reader or due to his conditioning in a society which has declared this
topic a taboo and hence has irrationalized it. Since the arrest warrant
neither quotes examples nor defines what “increased,” “intense,” and
“passion” means in this context and how and due to which criteria a
penal assessment is performed, I can only reject such an expression as
unconscionable. I may emphasize, though, that none of my writings are
inciting to any kind of passion about the Jews as a collective, neither
positively nor negatively.
II. Promotion Brochure
The promotion brochure Heretics claim: “the Holocaust never happened”
as well as the flyer The Holocaust Controversy, as quoted in
excerpts by the indictment, basically contain compressed summaries of
the content of my book Lectures on the Holocaust, which is why I
won’t deal with those quotes in more detail here. Merely the topic “restitutions”
is dealt with in the Lectures only marginally and even then
only tangentially in a different context. I may therefore address this topic
here.
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