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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
paratory measures. Numerous documents of Central Construction office
of Auschwitz clearly show, however, that there was not just one
Sonderkommando but rather a multiplicity of special prisoner details.
Yet not a single one of them was involved in any way with any sort of
homicidal activities. And of all the many prisoner details, the one group
that had to bring the bodies from the morgues, prepare them for cremation,
and finally incinerate them, were simply called Heizer (stokers),
but never Sonderkommando. Thus the origin of this designation for these
prisoner work details clearly lies not in reality, but rather in the propagandistic
distortions of the postwar period.
As my last example I may point out to you that the terms Sonderbehandlung
(special treatment) and Sondermaßnahme (special measure),
which are claimed to be synonyms for mass murder when referring to
Auschwitz, are connected in all cases of their appearance in the 80,000
pages of documents of the Auschwitz Central Construction Office with
measures of highest priority – therefore “special” – to improve the hygienic
conditions in the camp in order to halt the typhus epidemic,
which had gotten out of control, and to prevent future mass deaths
among the forced laborers urgently needed in the armaments industry.
These measures therefore served the exact opposite of what is officially
alleged, namely preserving lives rather than mass murder.
The suppression of these and other well-documented research results
by established historiography adds to the immunization of their theories
by arbitrary definitions of terms the immunization by arbitrary elimination
of data.
4. Ad hominem attacks
The last main tactic for immunizing theories consists of attacking
persons rather than criticizing arguments, which is typically the last resort
of those who have run out of arguments. Concerning these illegitimate
tactics Popper simply states: 114
“[...] that the argument counts, rather than the person arguing.”
This ought to be self-evident, but the entire persecution of revisionists
is ultimately based on nothing other than personal insinuations and
is nothing else but an attack on the arguing person rather than on his
arguments.
114 Karl Popper, The Open…, op. cit. (note 70), vol. 2, p. 225.
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