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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
camp, as is frequently claimed – like in the criticized FAZ article – but
from a cobbler’s shop, which had employed inmates as forced laborers.
From this I concluded (Lectures p. 17) that during the heated atmosphere
of the final moments of World War II a conclusion had been
drawn prematurely which later turned out to be false. I also pointed out
that not everything which the media report, which one can read in
books, or what museums want to sell us as the truth need always be the
absolute truth.
This platitude ought not to be surprising news for anyone, really, but
when applying it to the Holocaust as well, the public prosecution gets
involved rapidly.
In this context I may swiftly call attention to a book by the FAZ
journalist Udo Ulfkotte with the title The Way Journalists Lie. 173 The
book addresses lies, distortions, and exaggerations by the media in general
with a host of examples. On p. 65 we read:
“False reports play into the hands of revisionists, for instance
when newspapers print falsehoods and revisionists subsequently
seize upon this. One example for this is the title report of the [Swiss
newspaper] Berner Tagewacht of 24 August 1945. ‘13 million murdered
in Dachau’ it said there, and: ‘26 million murdered in German
concentration camps.’ This news release from Reuters led to a
paradox situation: Holocaust deniers use this obviously false report
in order to cast doubt on the historically secured truth of mass gassings.”
Ulfkotte does not substantiate his claim that we revisionists would
deny mass gassings by using this false report about 26 million dead persons
in concentration camps. This is simply not true.
Already in the first German edition of my Lectures of 1993 under
the title Vorlesungen über Zeitgeschichte (Lectures on Contemporary
History) I had started the first lecture just as I did in the new edition,
because I had introduced my lectures held in 1992 with a discussion of
this false 26 million figure, which was also hawked around by the FAZ.
Yet this false report about 26 million victims did not serve to doubt
mass murders, but merely to make the reader aware that not everything
the media tell us needs be true. As such I use this report in the same
way as Ulfkotte, who has dedicated an entire book to “media lies.” Being
a journalist of the FAZ himself, Ulfkotte repeatedly praises his own
173 Udo Ulfkotte, So lügen Journalisten, Goldmann, Munich 2001.
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