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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

ly does not discuss Höss’ account about the coercion of his confession<br />

by torture, which is accessible to anyone in Broszat’s edition (Wolfgang<br />

Benz merely knows to report about the “revisionist objection” that Höss<br />

has made his confession after having been tortured). 21 But already during<br />

the Auschwitz trial the defendant Breitwieser was acquitted after it<br />

had turned out during an inspection of the locations in Auschwitz that<br />

the testimony of the main witness of the prosecution is wrong. 22<br />

Johannes Peter Ney’s study about the Wannsee protocol is in a different<br />

way a counterpoint to the most conspicuous weak point of established<br />

literature, namely the basic, although by no means complete absence<br />

of document criticism. Counterpoints of this kind are desirable in<br />

science, even if the content is entirely wrong. Only experts can have the<br />

final say, and only the unanimous opinion {p. 23} of several and independent<br />

experts could be considered as proof.<br />

Ingrid Weckert’s contribution on the “gas vans” basically consists of<br />

document criticism as well. It furthermore contains an extraordinarily<br />

far-reaching allegation about the statements of a clerk at the Yad<br />

Vashem Institute which should be easily verifiable.<br />

It can probably be understood that an irresistible temptation exists to<br />

graphically demonstrate, by way of image forgeries, such events which<br />

have been kept secret and have hardly ever been photographed. A nonexpert<br />

cannot decide whether Udo Walendy’s observations are correct<br />

or misleading, but it cannot be denied that investigations of this kind are<br />

legitimate. It is a different question, though, what kind of conclusions<br />

may be drawn from individual proofs.<br />

John Clive Ball’s study about “air photo evidence” has a much bigger<br />

import. Once again only experts can decide about the interpretation<br />

of Allied air photos which were only released in the late 1970s, and<br />

Ball’s thesis that the shadows of introduction shafts recognizable on the<br />

roof of crematory II originate from a forgerer is withdrawn from the<br />

judgment of a non-expert at any rate.<br />

The most detailed and most scholarly contribution is the one by Carlo<br />

Mattogno and Franco Deana on the “The Crematoria Ovens of<br />

Auschwitz and Birkenau.” It is at once the one which one is inclined to<br />

certify most emphatically as being “heartless,” {p. 24} because it performs<br />

capacity calculations which must appear most irreverent toward<br />

the victims. But if one claims, like the witness Filip Müller did already<br />

during the Auschwitz trial, that on no rare occasion 25,000 humans<br />

were gassed in Birkenau during one day and that the corpses were sub-<br />

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