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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
dexed it in the same way. 185 The almost mechanical, repetitive character
of the pseudo-arguments contained in the indexing decision gives the
impression that the indexing happens with a cookie-cutter approach by
a bovine administrator mentality.
3. Giant with Feet of Clay
a) By way of introduction the following has to be stated about this
book by Jürgen Graf: 186 Graf’s book is a critique of Raul Hilberg’s
classic work The Destruction of European Jews. 182 As explained in
the section about the nature of science, criticizing other works is not
only legitimate, but downright desirable. Hilberg himself repeatedly
stated that revisionist criticism can be seen as something from which
one can learn, 187 although he seems to have exempted himself from
this, as he never bothered to answer the critiques aimed at him in the
new editions of his books.
If we take the title of Hilberg’s book as an assignment, then we
would have to conclude that he has missed his topic, because 90% of
his book does not deal with the destruction of European Jews, but
with their legal disfranchising and persecution, i.e. with measures
not leading to their physical destruction. For this reason 90% of Hilberg’s
book is irrelevant for a revisionist critique in a more narrow
sense, because the issues dealt with in it are more or less undisputed.
When it comes to concrete claims of extermination, the remaining
10% of Hilberg’s book is based almost exclusively on witness accounts,
i.e. on the hypotheses of lay persons. Hilberg quotes only a
few documents and does not conduct any source criticism. Hence, he
does not have a primacy of the archive.
Hilberg’s book is therefore unscientific with respect to this chapter,
and it moreover essentially misses the self-chosen topic. In every
course of study with normal assessment criteria Hilberg would have
flunked his exam with this work.
b) In their indexing decision the BPjM writes that Graf’s footnotes “refer
to the usual sources of Holocaust denial,” which is given as an
185 Decision no. 5715, BAnz 20, 29 Jan. 2000.
186 Decision no. 5959, 12 March 2001, BAnz 64, 31 March 2001 (www.vho.org/D/Riese); Engl.
ed.: The Giant with Feet of Clay, Theses & Dissertations Press, Capshaw, AL, 2001
(www.vho.org/GB/Books/Giant).
187 See in Appendix 2 the motion to introduce evidence no. 18, p. 244.
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