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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
contained a similar passage about the definition of genocide as the one
quoted here from the Lectures. Since I feared that some of the contributing
authors would not agree with the text of my introduction, I did not
tell them beforehand about its content. After all, it had already been sufficiently
difficult to keep all the authors on board of this project, since
occasional arguments had erupted during the preparational phase and
some authors had threatened to retract their contribution.
When the co-authors finally received the finished book, I indeed received
an angry letter from Johannes Peter Ney in which he accused me
of making unnecessary concessions to the other side by admitting that
even from a revisionist point of view the National Socialist persecution
of the Jews amounted to genocide. Hence Herr Ney forbade me to ever
again publish any contribution by him. This is also the reason why the
contribution by Herr Ney about the question of the authenticity of the
Wannsee Protocol is not included in the English edition of Grundlagen.
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For both gentlemen mentioned here the motto “Wrong or Right, my
Country” was supreme, as they had pointed out to me. They demanded
expressly that I ought to subordinate truth to political considerations,
and that simply won’t wash with me.
I finally may address a pseudo-accusation which cannot be found in
the indictment but which can be found in Judge Meinerzhagen’s ruling
about the arrest warrant. According to this I am allegedly not interested
in discovering the truth, but only in helping my views to a breakthrough.
As a matter of fact, both usually go hand in hand, because only he
who is convinced to have found the truth has the motivation and conviction
to make it prevail – or at least wanting it to prevail – against something
else which he considers to be wrong. And besides, wishing for a
breakthrough of one’s own views is absolutely legitimate, deeply human,
and even necessary in the scientific process, because one needs a
motivation to defend one’s theses against criticism, not to mention that
one needs much stronger motivations in order to stay true to one’s
views in the face of personal attacks and even societal persecution and
government prosecution. A scientist who caves in at the slightest resistance
isn’t any good.
175 An English translation is posted online, though, see note 125.
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