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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
My PhD course, however, was violently aborted due to governmental
persecution. Galilei’s book bears the title Dialogue Concerning the Two
Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, hence is a juxtaposition
of the heliocentric and the geocentric world view. Galilei was sentenced
to a lifelong house arrest, where he enjoyed many privileges, not
at least because the pope of his time was a friend of his. That was certainly
more pleasant than what you are threatening me with here, that is:
a Spartan cell, cut off from the world. Galilei’s main adversary was, as
we all know, the Catholic Church. I deliberately leave open who my
main adversary is.
This juxtaposition is more than just an interesting game. Because
what came to an end with the persecution of Galilei was nothing less
than the intellectual predominance of Italy in Europe, which this country
had carved out for itself in all areas of culture and science during the
renaissance. When the inquisition moved into Italy together with the
Spaniards, intellectual freedom in this country was choked little by little.
Hence the center of gravity of intellectual life subsequently moved
to the Protestant north of Europe, whither the arm of the “Holy Inquisition”
could not reach, mainly to Germany and England. These two
countries were the intellectually dominating countries for the next three
hundred years, until they battered each other’s skulls during the two
world wars.
Today Germany finds herself in a similar situation as Italy at the
time of Galilei. I have quoted here Jens Jessen writing in Die Zeit how
“political correctness” kills the intellectual life in Germany, and Günther
Bertram, who I have copiously quoted earlier, has determined that
in the meantime the Auschwitz taboo has generated many “satellite taboos”
poisoning the political and intellectual climate. In 1994 I published
a contribution in an anthology in which I demonstrated how this
über-taboo paralyzes many scientific fields. 278
Hence, in my view this trial is not so much about me and my books.
This trial is a kind of watershed. Here it will be decided whether in
Germany it will be possible again in the future to maintain or regain a
leading position on the intellectual, cultural and scientific level, or
whether Germany will descend to a second-rate or even third-rate coun-
278 See my contribution “Wissenschaft und ethische Verantwortung” (Science and Ethical Responsibility)
in: Andreas Molau (ed.), Opposition für Deutschland, Druffel-Verlag, Berg am
Starnberger See 1995, pp. 260-288.
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