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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
Art. 1: The Party is always right.
Art. 2: If the Party is not right for once, then Art. 1 takes effect
automatically.”
Apart from that, I declare here that imprisoning dissident historians
is not problematic nonsense but a downright crime. You know the German
Penal Code better than I do. Somewhere in it something is said
about the prosecution of innocent people and about false imprisonment.
We are forced by penal law to believe in something, because this
something was allegedly so unique. Hence do we have to believe because
that which is alleged has been so unique, so extreme? The world
has seen such an outlandish logic before, namely some 1,800 years
ago: 271
“[Due to his] defense of absurd, illogical, anti-rational church
dogmas, Christian apologist Tertullian (200 A.C) was accused of
advocating the thesis: ‘Credo, quia absurdum est’/’I believe, because
it is absurd.’ 272 May this be substituted in the age of enlightenment
by a ‘Credendum est, quia extremum est’/’One has to believe,
because it is extreme’?”
I, however, demand a likewise extraordinary, uniquely critical and
thorough investigation of the unique allegations, which, after all, serve
as a justification for such extreme measures like collective guilt, collective
responsibility, collective shame and what other kinds of collective
terms are being invented. If a mark of Cain is foisted upon me, and my
human rights are being restricted in a unique way, I simply demand also
a unique investigation of these allegations. That is indeed the least one
can expect!
When in spring 1993, due to the publication of my expert report on
Auschwitz, emotions ran high at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart,
Germany (my then employer), the then Managing Director of the Institute
Prof. Dr. Arndt Simon stated to me the following in a personal conversation
on 3 May 1993:
“Every era has its taboos. Even we researchers have to honor the
taboos of our era. We Germans must not touch this subject [of the
mass murder of Jews], others have to do that. We have to accept that
we Germans have fewer rights than other.”
271 Ibid., p. 140.
272 Tertullian in fact wrote: credibile est, quia ineptum est (it is credible, because it is fatuous/inexpedient),
which isn’t much better either; see Timothy Barnes, Tertullian. A Historical
and Literary Study, Oxford 1971, p. 223.
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