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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
Dr. Hans Friedrich Gorki 20 November 2000
University Professor, emeritus…
Affidavit
about the obstruction of free historical research in Germany.
1. About my person:
Born on 16 Dec. 1922. Study of geography, history and German philology.
Teacher at a Grammar school. Since 1970 tenured professor for
geography and its didactics at the Ruhr Pedagogical College, since 1980
at the Dortmund University. Retired 1988. Special areas of activity: city
geography and thematic cartography. Private interests: contemporary
history with focus on National Socialism and its effects. The occupation
with this topic enables me to make the following statement.
2. About the matter:
In the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the officially promoted
depiction of the time of the so-called Third Reich still corresponds to
the extremely one-sided view which prevailed immediately after the end
of World War II. Efforts aimed at differentiating with detailed studies
and at gaining insights which better describe the conditions and events
between 1933 and 1945 are unwelcome as revisionist. Whoever investigates
with that aim runs the risk to be labeled as “unteachable” or to be
simply defamed as a “Nazi,” partly due to ignorance and partly due to
malice, and to be socially ostracized, if he arrives at results which do
not conform to the prevailing opinion. Already this situation clearly
shows a tendency for political persecution.
However, there can be no doubt that effective political persecution
exists in the FRG as an official reaction to revisionist investigations
addressing the topic of the National Socialist persecution of the Jews.
Although it does not cross the mind of any serious person to deny the
nefarious aspects of the “Third Reich” in its factuality, the depiction of
these past, altogether terrible events, which is considered exclusively
valid, is nevertheless not convincing in all its details. Hence it must
matter here as well to come to a differentiated and thus more realistic
knowledge of the events by means of specialized studies. In this process
it would have to be left to the evaluation of arguments and counterarguments
in an unpredetermined scientific dispute to establish which
theses and views prevail at the end due to their factual weight – as it is
the case in all other areas of scientific work.
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