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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
lar thesis be sustained about the voluntary and deliberate assistance of
major parts of the ruling classes, even of the German people?
Yehuda Bauer drew attention to the fact that “Ukrainian forces were
heavily involved” during the pogroms in Lemberg in early July 1941, 15
and he thus indirectly raises the question about the European, especially
the east European anti-Semitism as a prerequisite for the realization of
the “final solution.” Yet he does not mention the precedents either,
namely the mass murders of the retreating NKVD in Lemberg, which
were given a massive and possibly grossly exaggerated publicity in
Germany.
Another one of Hilberg’s considerations points at the fact that in SS
documents hearsay is astonishingly important: “For instance we hear
only from a man like Eichmann, who has heard from Heydrich, who
had heard from Himmler what Hitler had said. Needless to say that this
is not the best source for the writers of history.” 16 But if the “Fama”
[rumor], the inaccuracy of knowledge, was so important even for the
higher echelons of the perpetrators, how could it not have been of central
importance also for the victims, and it is indeed known from the
accounts of intellectual witnesses such as Benedikt {p. 18} Kautskys
that the camps as a whole were breeding grounds for rumors. Nothing is
more comprehensible and easier to explain than this, but for the public
it is apparently still not self-evident that science is obligated to separate
“rumors” from “reality” as clearly as possible. Once more it needs to be
ascertained that the established science’s critique of numerous earlier
allegations about the methods of mass murder – blowing in steam, or
pumping out air, or killing on gigantic electric plates or in train carts
full of unslaked lime – occurred not explicitly but by tacit omission, no
different than in the case of Gerstein’s statements.
An explicit and thorough critique of the “rare and unreliable” eyewitness
statements about the gas chambers, so Arno Mayer, 17 was done
by Jean-Claude Pressac in his monumental, hardly obtainable book with
the misleading title Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers.
Although he does not dispute the essential correctness of the accounts
by men such as Paul Bendel and Miklos Nyiszli, he nevertheless concludes
that all the numbers given by these witnesses have to be divided
by four. 18 In his most recent work Die Krematorien von Auschwitz [The
Crematories of Auschwitz] he also comments on the total number of
victims in Auschwitz, and in the German edition he arrives at the allegation,
although in a not quite transparent way, that the total number of
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