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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
1. Concentration Camp Stutthof
a) By way of introduction I may state the following about this book:
The study authored by Carlo Mattogno and Jürgen Graf about the
concentration camp Stutthof is the first monograph ever written
about that camp. 181 As such it is without competition, even unique. It
is based on primary sources (contemporary documents) which the
authors have found and photocopied while visiting several eastern
European archives, foremost that of the Stutthof museum. Hence the
book follows the primacy of the archive, as it exists among historians.
It moreover includes as secondary sources mainly Polish studies
of the communist era, since almost no other studies exist about this
relatively small camp. Western literature, on the other hand, is mentioned
only in passing, because it frequently has only the nature of
tertiary sources, as for instance the synoptic works by Hilberg 182 or
Kogon/Langbein/Rückerl, 80 and because it is mostly based on mere
anecdotal material, that is to say witness statements, hence obviously
never made systematic recourse to documents of eastern archives.
Stutthof is furthermore mentioned only marginally in these books.
b) I will now discuss some of the charges made by the BPjM: 183
In their indexing decision they claim that the book would make “unfounded
assertions,” which itself is an unfounded assertion by the
BPjM. After all, Mattogno and Graf have substantiated their statements
with documents and publications. The BPjM’s statement is
correct, though, that the authors take “reference almost exclusively
(mostly to Polish documents),” which according to them proves that
the book’s claims are unfounded. But it is exactly this referring to
primary sources stored in Polish archives, i.e. to documents of the
German camp administration during World War II, as well as to
Polish secondary literature which conforms exactly to the definition
of scientific works! Next the BPjM alleges that the book “rarely contains
sources backing a claim,” although they had just determined
181 Jürgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno, Das Konzentrationslager Stutthof und seine Funktion in der
nationalsozialistischen Judenpolitik, 2nd ed., Castle Hill Publishers, Hastings 2004
(www.vho.org/dl/DEU/kls.pdf); Engl. ed.: Concentration Camp Stutthof and its Function in
National Socialist Jewish Policy, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003
(www.vho.org/GB/Books/ccs).
182 Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of European Jews, Quadrangle Books, Chicago 1961; Holmes &
Meier, New York 1985; Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2003.
183 Decision no. 5960, 9 March 2001; published in the German federal government’s journal announcing
regulations and rulings Bundes-Anzeiger (BAnz) 64, 31 March 2001.
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