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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
thing ever took place. He bolsters his contention saying “Historians,
among them Telford Taylor, confirmed it.” The truth is that Telford
Taylor was not a historian but rather a lead prosecutor at Nuremberg,
and nowhere did he write or confirm that people, let alone infants, were
thrown alive into fires.
Yet Wiesel persists in telling this lie. In 1985 before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee he said under oath: 12
“Mr. Chairman, I have seen the flames. I have seen the flames
rising to nocturnal heavens; I have seen parents and children,
teachers and their disciples, dreamers and their dreams, and woe
unto me, I have seen children thrown alive in the flames.”
While we can forgive the melodramatic presentation, the fact remains
that there is no forensic evidence whatsoever that people were
mass murdered at Auschwitz by being thrown into fires. Yet again this
untruth goes unchallenged and Wiesel continues to be admired as an
“honorable witness” and a “nationally approved moral luminary.” 13
There is a famous photograph taken in Buchenwald in adult Block
56 by a professional American photographer Harry Miller of the Signal
Corps. When it appeared in the New York Times on May 6, 1945, none
of the former prisoners were identified. Years later in 1983 Wiesel
claimed to be shown in the photo, and he is now so identified in Holocaust
museums all over the world. 14
Not only does the image not appear to be a boy of 16, but if his story
in Night is true, he could not possibly have been in the photo. Buchenwald
was liberated by the Americans on April 11, 1945; Wiesel claims
to have become very ill three days later with food poisoning and claims
to have been “transferred to a hospital” where he “spent two weeks between
life and death.” 15 The photograph was taken on April 16th in
adult Block 56, not children’s Block 66 where Elie was sheltered after
the death of his father in January. 16 Yet Wiesel claims, “The truth I present
is unvarnished.”
12
Mark Chmiel. Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership (Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 2001), pp. 127f. as taken from Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 99th Congress,
1st sess., Congressional Record (7 March 1985), S2857.
13
Ibid., p. 136.
14
Samuel G. Freedman, “Bearing Witness: The life and Work of Elie Wiesel,” New York Times,
23 October 1983.
15
Night, p. 115.
16
www.buchenwald.de/english/index.php?p=168
15