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

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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
The story goes that, when Galileo faced his inquisitors, they showed
him the instruments of torture. Whatever else he may have been, Galileo
was also a physician, so he knew what metal does to flesh, hence he
recanted.
Not so Germar Rudolf.
It’s also said that, in his recantation, Galileo crawled across the floor
to his accusers.
Not so Germar Rudolf.
In a letter written by Germar from his prison cell he examines why
he became a Holocaust revisionist and why he was prepared to pay such
a terrible price. 44 The fact is that Germar was never much interested in
World War II or the Holocaust. What interested him were the whys and
wherefores of lies, delusions and propaganda. Why are they created?
How are they propagated, maintained and enforced, and why do we believe
in them? To him Holocaust propaganda is not a mere historical
issue but rather also an ideological issue. Nor does there seem to be any
single motive for his interest; rather it stems from a mixture of personal
history and personality. From childhood he was blessed (or cursed) with
an insane curiosity and with what he describes as “a greatly overdeveloped
sense of justice.” We also learn that he was brutalized by his father.
In his typical German primary and secondary education, he touched
the subject of the Holocaust several times:
“The usual claims about it seemed indubitable, undeniable to me,
truth chiseled in stone, self-evident.”
But in 1989 he came across the writings of Paul Rassinier, 45 a former
French communist, partisan fighter, and inmate of Buchenwald and
Dora concentration camps. Rassinier heard stories after the war of
mechanized exterminations in Buchenwald – a claim he knew to be untrue.
He wondered, “If they can lie about that, what else can they lie
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This section largely reflects the thoughts of the Deir Yassin Remembered UK Director, Paul
Eisen.
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Dated 27 Aug. 2006, in response to a letter to him by Israel Shamir;
www.globalfire.tv/nj/06en/persecution/rudolf.htm; all subsequent quotes from there.
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In Rudolf’s case it was Rassinier’s book Was ist Wahrheit?, 8th ed., Druffel, Leoni, 1982;
Engl.: The Real Eichmann Trial or The Incorrigible Victors, Institute for Historical Review,
Torrance 1976.
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