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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
But suppose that he had also read the Lectures of Germar Rudolf and
was convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that there were no homicidal
gas chambers built or employed by the Third Reich. 25 If he dared to
speak publicly or to write professionally of this contention (that there
were no homicidal gas chambers), would he still be smeared as a Holocaust
denier or an anti-Semite or both?
If history really repeats itself as it so often does, the professor at first
would be ignored or shunned. His colleagues would begin to avoid contact
with him; his access to university committees and panel discussions
would be limited, always with some other excuse, if any, being offered.
If he did get his contrary views on gas chambers published, even in a
local small-circulation paper, righteous and indignant counter articles
would appear to drown out his voice. Letters of protest would be sent to
his employer; threats by alumni would be generated and threats to withhold
donations to his university would materialize.
If he persisted, his colleagues would not only shun him, they would
smear him, often behind his back. They might charge him with “questioning
undisputed facts,” “blaming the victim,” “spreading unsupported
vitriol,” “fostering hate speech,” or failing to meet “minimally rational
and minimally humane discourse.” 26 If he were not tenured, he
surely would never be, no matter how outstanding his teaching evaluations,
publications, and community service. 27 If tenured, he would find
his “new” office in the basement well out of sight. 28 If retired, he would
face calls to revoke his status as a faculty emeritus. 29
And it could be worse. He might be accused of “fraud in research”
and tried in secret with the administration soliciting testimony from professional
Holocaust experts. 30 Or in fourteen countries, including Ger-
25
Germar Rudolf. Lectures on the Holocaust: Controversial Issues Cross Examined (Chicago, IL:
Theses & Dissertations Press, 2005).
26
These were all charges made in a smear letter sent to over 300 people by seven of this author’s
colleagues when he merely defined “Holocaust Denial” as Ahmadinejad spoke at the United
Nations in the fall of 2009.
27
The rejection of tenure for renowned author Norman Finkelstein at DePaul University is not the
only case in point.
28
The banished, unidentified office of Professor Arthur Butz at Northwestern University is an
excellent example. He is the author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against
the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry.
29
A smear letter allegedly signed by dozens of faculty members called for the revocation of this
author’s faculty emeritus status at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in reprisal for an op-ed
piece that simply defined Holocaust denial based on the three features mentioned above.
30
This was the fate of David O’Connell, a Professor Emeritus at Georgia State University. His
Holocaust Heresy Trial was held in secret from December 2005 to October 2006 as the result of
his article entitled “Elie Wiesel and the Catholics” (Culture Wars magazine, November 2004,
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