Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYYet even in cases dealt with by the lower County Courts it can be arrangedthat in political cases no appeal will be filed, as the case of theright-wing publishing company Grabert proves. In June of 1996 theowner of that company stood trial at the County Court Tübingen forhaving published the book Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, which I hadedited. 125 During that trial the late expert witness Dr. Joachim Hoffmann,who had been a director at the German government ResearchInstitute for Military History (Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt) inFreiburg, testified to the effect that this my book was scientific in nature,as a result of which it ought to enjoy the protection of freedom ofscience according to article 5, paragraph 3, of the German Basic Law.Yet the County Court Tübingen simply ignored this expert opinion andsentenced Mr. Grabert anyway. After the latter had filed an appealagainst that decision, the prosecution informed him unofficially that hispublishing company would be subjected to constant house searches andbook confiscation, if he does not withdraw his appeal. And indeed,since Mr. Grabert had to endure a spring tide of house searches andbook confiscations already during the years 1995/1996, he knew thatthis was no empty threat, so he withdrew his appeal. Grabert’s copyeditor told me this several years ago after I had inquired about the stateof the case, since I had hoped that the confiscation of my book wouldeventually be dealt with by the German Constitutional High Court.And such events and general conditions are then claimed to be thefeatures of a state under the rule of law.Now to the second quote of the unnamed author:“Even if you were to speak in your own defense with the eloquenceof Demosthenes [ 126 …] it would not help you in the slightest.All you could do would be to increase your sentence […].” (1/294)That’s the same with trials against historical dissidents in Germany,because if I tried here to prove my historical views, then this wouldprobably result in the court’s charge of my being incorrigible and evenobdurate, which would lead to an even more severe punishment. Or theprosecutor would even initiate a new criminal investigation against me,as I would be committing the same crime of “denial” once more duringa public trial.125 Ernst Gauss (ed. = Germar Rudolf), Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, Grabert, Tübingen 1994(www.vho.org/D/gzz); Engl.: G. Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, Capshaw, AL, 2000;2nd ed., Theses & Dissertations Press Chicago 2003 (www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth).126 Leading Greek orator and leading statesman of Athens (384-322 B.C.).104