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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
5 Otto D. Kulka, “Die deusche Geschichtsschreibung über den Nationalsozialismus und die
‘Endlösung.’ Tendenzen und Entwicklungen 1924-1984,” in: Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 240
(1985), pp. 599-640, esp. pp. 617ff.
6 Inflated numbers can be coerced, as it was indeed the case with Höss. (Kommandant in Auschwitz.
Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen des Rudolf Höss. Ed. by Martin Broszat, Munich (dtv)
1963, pp. 149, 167.) Already from this results the necessity of scientific revisions with regard to
the widespread opinion about Auschwitz. In the book Streitpunkten (Berlin-Frankfurt 1993) I
stated: “Such an assertion cannot be invented, but it can all too easily be exaggerated” (p. 310).
7 Cf. “Historikerstreit.” Die Dokumentation der Kontroverse um die Einzigartigkeit der nationalsozialistischen
Judenvernichtung, Munich 1987. My article “Vergangenheit, die nicht
vergehen will” (“A past that refuses to pass,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 6, 1986)
can be found on pp. 39-47.
8 I give only a single example from the most recent past for the lacking disposition of this school
to reproduce trains of thought without gross distortions or to grant their opponents sincere motives:
In my interview with the [newsmagazine] Spiegel of 3 October 1994 (no. 40, pp. 83-103)
I stated that the fact that the adjective “humane” was used both by other National Socialists as
well as primarily by Hitler with regard to the “punishment” of the Jews convinces me more
than anything else of the reality of the gas chambers. The subsequent question typical of the
Spiegel was whether I really considered it more humane to be gassed in a Nazi concentration
camp rather than starved to death. I rejected this objection and stated that this is evidently a
perversion of the term “humane.” That did not prevent one of the authors of the anthology Antisemitismus
in Deutschland edited by Wolfgang Benz to carry this underhanded insinuation further
still by claiming that I had described the gas chambers as a “humane killing method.”
(Daniel Gerson, “Der Jude als Bolschewist. Die Wiederbelebung eines Stereotyps,” in: Antisemitismus
in Deutschland. Zur Aktualität eines Vorurteils, Munich (dtv) 1995, pp. 157-180, p.
176).
9 It is a curious fact that a compilation of important witness accounts has been prepared only by
the revisionist side: Jürgen Graf, Auschwitz. Tätergeständnisse und Augenzeugen des Holocaust,
Würenlos (Switzerland) 1994. The same author has also written with utter conviction and
moral indignation the popular presentation: Der Holocaust-Schwindel. Vom Werden und
Vergehen des Jahrhundertbetrugs, Basel 1993. If one takes the Deutsche Manifest as a comparison,
which was anonymously published on 8 May 1995, then it becomes apparent that different
levels have to be distinguished within revisionism as well: the inflamatory, the populist and
a third, which presumably has to be called “scientific.”
10 Peter Longerich (ed.), Die Ermordung der europäischen Juden. Eine umfassende Dokumentation
des Holocaust 1941-1945, Munich-Zurich 1989, p. 69.
11 Wolfgang Benz, Antisemitismus in Deutschland (see note 8), p. 135; Artur Brauner et al.,
“Wider das Vergessen, denn wie sollte man vergessen,” in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
May 6, 1995.
12 Eberhard Jäckel, Jürgen Rohwer, Der Mord an den Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Entschlußbildung
und Verwirklichung, Stuttgart 1985, p. 12.
13 Ibidem, p. 147.
14 Ibidem, p. 190.
15 Ibidem, p. 170.
16 Ibidem, p. 187.
17 This sentence by this reputable U.S.-Jewish historian, which by now has been quoted frequently
by revisionists, stems from his book Der Krieg als Kreuzzug. Das Deutsche Reich, Hitlers
Wehrmacht und die “Endlösung,” Reinbek 1989, p. 362, which is unique within the entire scientific
literature about the final solution due to its lack of source references. See my review in
the Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie, 2nd vol. 1990, pp. 335-339.
18 New York 1989, p. 475.
19 Jean-Claude Pressac, Die Krematorien von Auschwitz. Die Technik des Massenmordes, Munich-Zurich
1994, p. 202. In the original French edition of 1993, p. 148, slightly higher figures
were given (630,000 and 775,000, respectively).
20 London-Nairobi, 1985.
21 Cf. Benz (note 8), p. 130.
22 Bernd Naumann, Auschwitz, Berichte über die Strafsache gegen Mulka und andere vor dem
Schwurgericht Frankfurt, Bonn 1965, pp. 511, 530f.
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