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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
chamber question. If the final solution is basically equated with mass
extermination in gas chambers, then each noteworthy reduction of the
number of those killed that way, which has commenced already a long
time ago and which will possibly continue, will also assign a lower rank
to the final solution. And does it not signify a new and different kind of
selection, if the gas chamber victims count as victims of first degree,
whereas those who died of epidemics and of {p. 35} starvation are
hardly ever mentioned? Was the camp Salaspils, for example, less awful
just because it had no gas chambers? The obsession with gas chambers
diverts the eye from the essential and plainly undeniable.
There exists a little known and hardly ever cited monumental work
responsibly published by an institution of impeccable repute, which in
my judgment is much more impressive than all those statements by
eyewitnesses which evoke memories of Dante’s Inferno. It is the two
volume Gedenkbuch [memorial book] edited by the Bundesarchiv about
the Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen
Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 [Victims of the Persecution
of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945].
On more than 1,700 pages in landscape format, each page has some 75
names of deportees, and with each name are listed the residence, the
date of birth and the location from where the last news came. The penultimate
column contains information of the respective fate. It does not
say “gassed” for some and “perished of typhus” or “starved to death” or
“died of old age” for others. In most cases it merely reads “missing” or
“declared dead,” and under the name of the last whereabouts very often
“Auschwitz” appears, but also “Sobibor,” “Riga” and “Theresienstadt.”
Over and over again entire extended families are listed, and almost every
older German is well familiar with names such as Abel, Abendroth or
Markus, which are frequently enough linked to specific memories about
individuals. In light of these lists and knowing that these roughly
130,000 individuals comprise almost the total number of Jews that had
remained in Germany at the outbreak of the war, {p. 36} every contemporary
person has to realize that on 30 January 1939 Hitler was not joking
when he threatened the Jews with extermination in case of the outbreak
of a war. He has to feel shame about the fact that he failed to pay
attention to this phrase, and the recollection has to torment him that he
watched the deportation of the co-residents of his town without indignation,
because National Socialist propaganda had reported that the Germans
in England and the Japanese in the U.S. had been put into camps,
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