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

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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

Although I have been recognized as a political persecutee by an Italian<br />

human rights organization, nobody seems to know this organization,<br />

which is why this doesn’t bother anyone. The dogs bark, but the caravan<br />

passes unmoved.<br />

The only organization within Germany which has so far tried to lobby<br />

for the human rights of revisionists, namely the “Association for the<br />

Rehabilitation of those Persecuted for Contesting the Holocaust,” 240<br />

swiftly came into the crosshairs of governmental persecution due to exactly<br />

these activities, and as far as I know criminal investigations are<br />

conducted against all board members. 241<br />

Hence no remedy can be expected from this side either.<br />

4. Remedy by Public Protest<br />

Meanwhile public demonstrations demanding freedom of speech for<br />

revisionists have also become impossible, as the attempt to organize<br />

such a rally here in Mannheim in April 2006 has shown. It was prohibited<br />

by the state with the reason that prohibited opinions could be articulated<br />

during this demonstration. 135<br />

Well, you know, if it weren’t so deeply saddening, one really would<br />

have to write a satire about this.<br />

5. Remedy by Scholars<br />

Another potentially effective remedy would be, if a considerable<br />

number of established historians stated publicly that the revisionists<br />

have to be taken seriously and that they, as a matter of course, have to<br />

enjoy freedom of science and research as well. But there are unfortunately<br />

sheer insurmountable obstacles which I want to expound now.<br />

A while ago I gave you a copy of the Austrian philosopher Prof. Dr.<br />

Ernst Topitsch. The background of this letter is that Prof. Topitsch, as<br />

the author of a relatively well-known book on the German-Soviet<br />

240 Verein zur Rehabilitierung der wegen Bestreitens des Holocaust Verfolgten (VRBHV)<br />

241 In the meantime this association has been prohibited by the German Minister for the Interior<br />

and does therefore no exist; cf. press release of Bundesministerium des Innern, 7 May 2008,<br />

www.bmi.bund.de/cln_104/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2008/05/bm_verbietet_rechtse<br />

xtr_Org.html; cf. the German daily Die Welt, 7 May 2008; www.welt.de/themen/VRBHV.<br />

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