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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
lic of Germany conducts book burnings in keeping with a sad German
tradition. During the Third Reich this was performed publically by Berlin
students on that infamous evening at the Opernplatz in Berlin, at
which Josef Goebbels was present and gave a speech.
Today this is done in secrecy in order that the public doesn’t notice
anything.
Heinrich Heine once wrote: 168
“This was a prelude only. Where they burn books, so too will
they in the end burn human beings.”
Hence, before you decide to continue on this disastrous path of the
Federal German society by adding one more step, you should at least
know what you are delivering to the flames. My lawyer will therefore
now file a motion to have my book read during these proceedings.
(The court decides subsequently that the book will be read by the
judges in privacy. Three weeks pass before the next scheduled court
day. By then all judges and one lay judge have read the book, whereas
the second lay judge has read only the first four lectures, yet she states
that she will read the last one as well.)
1. General Accusations
The prosecution’s claim is wrong that I would “deny the genocide
organized by the state” (p. 13, similar p. 17, point 2.c). The book expressly
confirms that the measures of persecution of National Socialism
against the Jews meet the definition of article 6, paragraph 1, of the International
Penal Code, which means that it was genocide even from my
revisionist point of view. 169
The prosecution’s claim that I have given myself “a decidedly scientific
appearance already by the title of the work” (p. 29) is absolutely
irrelevant, because the matter at hand is not whether I am scientific in
nature, but whether the book in question is. This statement proves the
profound lack of comprehension of the prosecution who apparently
thinks that the scientific nature of a work can be determined by the
opinions and motives of its author. But that is not so. 170
168 In his 1821 play Almansor.
169 Lectures, op. cit. (not. 55) p. 520, see further down in chapter D.III.3.
170 See ch. B.III.4, starting at p. 89.
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