Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYC. Judicial ConsiderationsI shall now turn to a subject area in which I am not an expert and inwhich the Court has the advantage of me, namely judicial questions. Iwould nevertheless like to make a few remarks on this subject, yet I doask the Court’s leniency, should my knowledge not always meet professionalstandards.I. A Comparison of Two Systems of JusticeFirst I would like to juxtapose the conditions of the Federal Germanjudicial system, as I have observed and experienced them, with the judicialsystem of another country that I will name at the end of this comparison.I shall first quote text passages from a book of a prominent authorin which the legal system of this yet unnamed country is commentedupon. Then I shall compare this quotation with conditions in Germanyfrom my perspective. The source reference of each quotation containsin parenthesis the volume and page number of the quoted work.Our unnamed author describes in detail special government units inhis country which serve the prosecution of politically motivated“crimes,” which mostly refer to undesirable expressions of opinion.In Germany such special units exist as well, as I discovered to mygreat surprise at the end of the year 1992. At that time I received a letterfrom a certain “Dezernat Staatsschutz” (Department for State Protection)without letterhead or signature and printed on a cheap old fashioneddot matrix printer. The letter stated that an investigation had beenlaunched against me concerning the suspicion of incitement of themasses, allegedly committed with my expert report on Auschwitz. SinceI was firmly convinced that there no longer existed any political policein the “most liberal state of German history” which is carrying on thetradition of the Gestapo and Stasi, I at first thought that the letter was aforgery by some jokester. Unfortunately an inquiry soon taught me“better,” however. Later I learned that the staff of this State ProtectionPolice evidently goes through a specific political training so that forexample those officials prosecuting right-wing “thought crimes” wouldhave no sympathies for right-wing opinions, and vice versa for leftwingthought crimes. As we can read in the criminal statistics published99