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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
to it than just normal childhood curiosity. Neither fairy tales, folk sagas,
pirate tales nor adventure stories could inspire me to read. At the beginning
of the third school year my reading skills were still so bad that everyone
became alarmed. At that time, however, my mother had an inspiration
that was my salvation. For my eighth birthday she gave me the
book Luft, Wasser, Wärme, Schall: Physik für Kinder (Air, Water, Heat
and Sound: Physics for Children), and that caused the breakthrough!
Finally I had a book that did not waste my time with make believe, but
rather offered answers and explanations for questions that I had long
been asking. Since that time, there has been no stopping or turning back
for me. Since then I have wanted to read whatever literature I could get,
in the way of natural science and technology. My greatest treasure soon
became my constantly growing collection of editions of the Tesloff Series
Was ist Was (What’s What). The small town in which I grew up
had a tiny bookshop, and the town library had just one single shelf of
books on technology and the natural sciences. This put me on starvation
rations.
During my childhood paleontology, astronomy and meteorology became
my favorite subjects. At age 13 I began my own continual weather
recordings three times a day, because I had dreams of someday becoming
a meteorologist with my very own weather station. Thus after a year
of uninterrupted measurements, I was able to calibrate my barometer to
the average air pressure.
By coincidence – I found a subscription coupon lying in the dirt – I
learned about a new magazine around the time of my 14th birthday.
That was PM – Peter Moosleitners interessantes Magazin (Peter Moosleitner’s
interesting magazine), a popular science magazine on a level
which was easy to digest. At an age when other teenagers were reading
Bravo 66 and devouring Rock’n Roll magazines, I was urging my mother
with feverish enthusiasm to let me have this popular scientific magazine.
It remained my constant companion until the beginning of my
university studies; and in my whole life, I have never had a copy of
Bravo in my hand.
Shortly after I had turned 15, we moved to the city of Remscheid,
whose city library had many shelves of books on the natural sciences.
From the beginning I felt I was in paradise. I began borrowing specialized
scientific works in my favorite fields, among them at one point
66 A leading German tabloid youth magazine, see www.bravo.de.
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