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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
tions do not belong in scientific treatises of history. In any case, this
criterion of the BPjM cannot be generalized and is therefore impermissible.
The BPjM demands moreover that a book on the extermination of
the Jews must “present and critically assess all known facts, laws, regulations
and court verdicts.” This absolutist demand is impossible to
meet already due to the sheer volume of these items. To my knowledge
there are by now more than 1,000 court verdicts about alleged National
Socialist violent crimes. If each of these verdicts had only 20 pages,
how many pages would be required in order to present and critically
assess all of the verdicts? And yet nothing would have been gained by
this, because court verdicts are basically nothing else than opinions of
lay persons based on information from hearsay. After all, judges –
viewed from the perspective of a historian – are nothing but historical
lay persons, and their verdicts are merely based on the statements of
third parties, which almost never could be verified by documents or material
evidence. Hence the verdicts of penal courts are pretty much useless
for a historical researcher. It would be different if one could gain
direct access to the investigation files or if verbatim records would have
been prepared during German penal trials which could be consulted.
Rückerl, as the longtime director of the German Center for the investigation
of NS crimes in Ludwigsburg, had access to almost all of these
files, but that material is inaccessible to historians. 193
Fact is that the BPjM’s demand cannot be met either in theory or in
practice.
If one were to meet these arbitrary, maximalist requirements of the
BPjM for a scientific work on the extermination of the Jews, these demands
would probably be swiftly supplemented with new, similarly
arbitrary and nonsensical demands. This approach is pure despotism!
8. Conclusion
According to the German Law for the Protection of the Youth, the
advisory body of the BPjM which renders indexing decisions is staffed
with representatives of various societal groups, among them some from
193 The archive has recently been made accessible for historical research, although revisionists
would risk arrest rather than enlightenment.
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