Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYI wonder also how this court will assess my defense speech.Now to the next quote:“The tribunal roared out a threat to arrest […] the principal defenselawyer […]” (1/350)In the meantime that can be found in German trials against dissidentsas well, where defense lawyers, although not yet arrested in thecourt room, are nevertheless threatened with criminal proceedings, ifthey try to prove the historical views of their clients to be correct. Whenit comes to the facts themselves, that is, to the historical views of thedefendants, there basically exists during trials like the present one aprohibition even for defense lawyers to introduce evidence and to makestatements. Mr. Attorney Bock to my right side, for instance and to myknowledge, has been sentenced because he had dared to file a motionduring a trial in this very house to have prominent politicians of thisrepublic testify to the effect that the main reason why the Holocaustmust not be discussed controversially in public are political in nature.My third defense lawyer Jürgen Rieger, who does not partake in personduring this trial, has been sentenced because in 1996 he had dared tofile a motion during a trial to have me testify as an expert witness aboutthe question whether there had been homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz.My defense lawyer to the left side, Mrs. Stolz, had to experiencehow the police removed her from the court room by force during theZündel trial taking place parallel to this present trial in this court houseand how a criminal investigation has been initiated against her for herstatements during this trial, as it also happened somewhat earlier to thedefense lawyer Horst Mahler, even though the background of thesecriminal investigations are more political than historical in nature, sothat these two cases are somewhat outside of the scope of the presentissue.To the next quote from the same page:“And right then and there the tribunal actually ordered the imprisonmentof a witness, Professor Yegorov, […]”That reminds me at an event at the District Court Nuremberg duringthe trial against Swiss citizen Arthur Vogt in 1994. Vogt had been indictedbecause on invitation of the Thomas Dehler Foundation, which isclosely affiliated to the German Liberal-Democratic Party, he had lecturedabout his revisionist views on the Holocaust. On the initiative ofthe defense I had been summoned to this trial as an expert witness. Afterthe defense lawyer had read out aloud his respective motion, accord-105