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

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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

that the authors refer to Polish documents. Apparently there is some<br />

confusion within the BPjM about the terms “source,” “evidence,”<br />

and “reference.” These are terms not defined by the BPjM, yet they<br />

pit them against one another, although they all basically mean the<br />

same thing. Apart from this the question arises, how the BPjM wants<br />

to know whether or not the German documents and Polish articles<br />

quoted by Graf and Mattogno prove what they claim? Have the authors<br />

of this indexing decision traveled to the archives mentioned by<br />

Graf and Mattogno and have they studied the content of these documents?<br />

That is hardly the case, or at least they don’t claim this.<br />

The accusation by the BPjM that Mattogno and Graf have “included<br />

[…] Hilberg and Kogon […] only once as a reference” but have not<br />

quoted them as a “serious historical source” reveals the incompetence<br />

of the censors, because neither Hilberg nor Kogon are primary<br />

sources with regard to Stutthof or even serious secondary sources, as<br />

I have expounded before. Primary sources are serious sources, and<br />

these are located in Polish archives.<br />

c) In summary one has to conclude that the authors of the BPjM’s indexing<br />

decision do not have the faintest clue about the methods of<br />

the historical science in general, about the body of source material in<br />

the present case in particular, about source criticism as a method,<br />

and not even about basic terms like “source,” “evidence,” or “reference.”<br />

2. Concentration Camp Majdanek<br />

What I have said about the previous book basically also applies to<br />

the book Concentration Camp Majdanek authored by Mattogno and<br />

Graf. 162 This book is unique in its style as well, because prior to its publication<br />

basically only two other books about the Majdanek camp had<br />

appeared in western literature, written by two journalists reporting<br />

about federal German court proceedings surrounding events of this<br />

camp. 184 But these books cannot be taken seriously as historical literature.<br />

For some reasons this book has not been included in the indictment<br />

by the prosecution, although the Federal Assessment Agency had in-<br />

184 Heiner Lichtenstein, Majdanek. Reportage eines Prozesses, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt<br />

on Main 1979; Ingrid Müller-Münch, Frauen von Majdanek, Rohwolt, Reinbek 1982.<br />

167

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