Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYcussed here, as they have little, if anything, to do with opinions. Therecan be no doubt that all of my writings for which I am prosecuted fulfillthis criterion, as I have never justified, condoned, or advocated the unlawfulviolation of the civil rights of others.In the table I have added in parentheses that this very criterion absolutelydoes not apply to the former terrorists of the German terror organization“Red Army Fraction” (RAF). The background of this is thatthe media, foremost the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, drew parallelsbetween the trial in this very house against the revisionist Ernst Zündeland the trials against the RAF terrorists in the 1970s and 1980s. 133 Yetthey really cannot be compared, as the actions of the RAF have been theexact opposite of peaceful: They were violent, applied despotic arbitrarinessand violence in an extreme way, condoned this, and asked other todo so as well. That one even dares to compare this with the revisionists’utterly peaceful dissent merely proves that the minds of these journalistsmust be thoroughly confused.The next entry also applies to trials against revisionists, as criticizingthe dominant historical theories on the Holocaust is illegal only in avanishingly small minority of countries in the world. This does ofcourse raise the question why I should develop a sense of wrong at all,if what I am accused of is punishable almost nowhere else in the world,and especially not where I committed these deeds, that is, in Englandand in the U.S.That, too, is in stark contrast to the acts of the RAF, which are punishablein all nations of the world and which would probably be so inthose hypothetical states as well which the RAF terrorists would havecreated, if they had had the opportunity. Therefore the trials againstRAF terrorists were not political trials, as the defendants were not ontrial for their opinions but for violent acts, and therefore the RAF terroristshave not been political prisoners, as left-wing radicals still claimtoday, but violent felons. The RAF terrorists were perpetrators whokidnapped and murdered people and who planted bombs. The revisionists,however, are victims, because we are subject to muggings and assassinationattempts, as for instance Prof. Faurisson had to experiencefrequently, and it is we who receive parcel bombs and whose houses aresubject to arson, as Ernst Zündel had to experience. 134 It is therefore an133 Volker Zastrow, “Der Riß in der Robe,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 March 2006, p. 3.134 Cf. the summary in Lectures, op. cit. (note 55), pp. 495-500.111