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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
Without casting doubt on the veracity of either account of the same
event, Elie’s version is obviously more atrocity orientated. He has 50
percent more women in the transport and they are crowded naked into
cattle cars for a three-day trip. Did he make up the story? Did he “varnish”
what his sister really said? Did he embellish the horror of it? Elie
claims he would like to know more about the experiences of his two
older sisters in the camps, but he is afraid to ask. Perhaps he is afraid
that the truth would lie closer to the current revisionist narrative rather
than the narrative he has been massaging for over 60 years.
In late January 1945 Wiesel’s father died in Buchenwald, not of gas,
but of exhaustion, starvation, beating (in Night), and disease (according
to the records at Yad Vashem). Elie was transferred to the children’s
block (Block 66) with (by his narration) 600 other children. But by the
day of liberation by the Americans he claims there were only a few
hundred children left, 34 leaving the reader with the impression that most
had perished. Why did he deliberately omit the fact that over 900 children
were liberated at Buchenwald, some as young as eight years old? 35
Such omissions give credence to revisionists who argue that the six million
figure may well be exaggerated and that the extermination thesis
may be less likely than one based on the realities of war and ethnic
cleansing.
Why did Elie omit to tell readers that the children’s block, Block 66,
in Buchenwald was part of “a rescue operation inside the camp carried
out by elements of the German Communist-led international underground,
together with Polish-Jewish elements who worked with the underground”?
36 Bad as it was, why did he not tell us that the children in
Block 66 were given more food, clothing, and protection than prisoners
in the adult population? Does the very existence of hundreds of Jewish
children in a Nazi concentration camp not cause question of Wiesel’s
own definition of the Holocaust as a systematic, bureaucratic extermination
of Jews everywhere in Europe?
More importantly, why does Wiesel never mention the mass killing
and torture that took place in Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen after
these prisons were evacuated and turned over to the Russians to incar-
34
Night, p. 114.
35
www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004103
36
Wyatt Mason, “A False Story: Six Questions for Ken Waltzer,” Harpers Magazine, December
31, 2008, p. 4.
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