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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

interpreter during a presentation by Leuchter, was sentenced to many<br />

months imprisonment. His defense lawyer, the lawyer Bock, had to face<br />

a fine for a motion which he had filed during the Deckert trial while<br />

exercising his duty as a defense lawyer, and the judge of the first instance<br />

of the case, who had sentenced Deckert only to a prison term on<br />

probation, was retired shortly afterwards after massive political interventions.<br />

Leuchter was arrested and indicted as well.<br />

After this had made me sensitive, I followed among the subsequent<br />

trials with particular attention those against the certified chemist <strong>Germar</strong><br />

<strong>Rudolf</strong>, the historian Udo Walendy, and finally against the Australian<br />

citizen Dr. Fredrick Toben. In each of those trials the judiciary followed<br />

the same pattern. Such statements were indicted and punished<br />

which in the eyes of the court questioned crimes by the Nazis. It was<br />

expressly rejected to discuss these statements or even to evaluate their<br />

veracity. For a verdict of many months imprisonment it sufficed that<br />

these statements, although presented in a matter-of-factual way and scientifically<br />

substantiated, contradicted an undefined version of history<br />

which is nonetheless dictated as politically correct. In the case of Dr.<br />

Toben neither the prosecutor nor the judge were led astray by the fact<br />

that the defendant as an Australian citizen had posted his statements on<br />

the Internet from within Australia, where those acts are not subject to<br />

prosecution. Liberties granted in Australia were denied in Germany.<br />

In all these cases the prosecution is accompanied by an all-encompassing<br />

media campaign. The objects of that campaign are suspected of<br />

harboring “right-wing extremist views” and are stigmatized morally.<br />

Politicians and the public demand drastic punishments. The media only<br />

report about the verdict but nothing at all about the punished statements.<br />

Publishers, authors, translators and even typesetters who dare to deviate<br />

from the [official] line are confronted with being publicly suspected of<br />

having “right-wing views,” with being verbally and physically threatened,<br />

and with being labeled as “Nazis” on cars, houses and fences.<br />

Their offices and editorial departments are targets for nocturnal vandalism.<br />

Not even banks remain passive, but cancel their business relationships<br />

and the accounts of those thusly “ousted” under specious pretexts.<br />

That these are not isolated cases results from the fact that between<br />

1994 and 1997 some 17,208 penal proceedings were conducted against<br />

so-called “propaganda offenses.” The list of banned books and magazines<br />

is long but not public. Undesirable literature is confiscated and<br />

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