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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
another camp close to Dachau at Landsberg-Kaufering, built after 1943
with forced labor to make war goods. The fact that they were transferred
to another labor camp by passenger train, not cattle cars, supports
the revisionists’ contention that Auschwitz was not an extermination
camp.
Hilda Wiesel also describes the arrival of “3,000 men who came (to
Landsberg); they were from Auschwitz and they were a work force that
cleaned up the Warsaw Ghetto. Initially, they were at Auschwitz, then
they went to clean up the ghetto, and then, afterwards, they were sent to
our camp.” 40 Does Elie omit such survivor testimony because it does
not fit the extermination camp scenario he paints and reiterates over and
over again? And why does he never mention that his older sister
claimed that prisoners were also killed by Allied bombing and strafing
as they marched along the roads prior to liberation?
Hilda Wiesel also testified that in late 1944 and early 1945 the camp
“became ridden with typhus. The men died at the rate of 30 per day.” 40
Typhus and other diseases were the main cause of prisoner deaths in the
last year of the war, but this is virtually eliminated in the Holocaust narrative
of Elie Wiesel. Why are all his descriptions of death the result of
brutality and sadism instead of disease, starvation, and other causes associated
with war?
Finally, if Wiesel spent the day in Dachau in the early 1950s he must
have noticed that the barracks were filled with impoverished Germans
who had no other place to live. Roughly 80 percent of Munich had been
leveled, and poor people lived in the former Dachau concentration camp
on a permanent basis until it was upgraded to a Museum in 1965. Extensive
and brutal ethnic cleansing of civilian Germans after the war is
completely ignored by Wiesel.
While Wiesel fails to emphasize the ravages by disease of all prisoners
and others held in tight quarters (in the military or in ghettos), often
in unsanitary conditions, he does describe the showers and mandatory
hygiene routine followed uniformly in the Third Reich. This emphasis
on (almost an obsession with) hygiene was distinct to the German prison
camps as opposed to those run by the Soviets or the Japanese. Elie
tells us that prisoners took off their clothes, were given hot showers,
and then clean clothes. He says, “These were the showers, a compulsory
40
Translation of an interview in French of Hilda Wiesel Kudler in Nice, France, on December 11,
1995 (see note 31).
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