Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYclaimed to be obvious. The only thing that is obvious to me is that ourrevisionist media strengthen skepticism and critical faculties towardsauthorities. Our writings therefore lead the German underling out of hisimmaturity by teaching him how to use his intelligence without theguidance of others, just as Kant has described it. And that is exactlywhat the authoritarian state wants to prevent with its rubber-like censorshiplaws! I want to go even one step further by putting the shoe ontothe other foot. As should be known, it is illegal to make horror moviesaccessible to minors, and quite correctly so, because even if one explainedto children and adolescents that these are mere invented storiesand staged events, the gory butcheries shown still would have a traumatizingeffect.Yet simultaneously the very same pedagogues claim that similarbloody butcheries have to be shown compulsorily to adolescents, ifevents are concerned of allegedly true historical nature. With this Imean that nowadays the school children of basically all western countriesare compelled to be exposed to certain – authentic or staged –movies scenes and written stories in order to give them an understandingof what the National Socialists allegedly committed during WorldWar II. It ought to be really self-evident that such material must be evenmore traumatizing for adolescents than the exposure to invented horrorspecial effects. How can one outlaw the one as reprehensible yet makethe other compulsory? I may emphasize that I am not against teachingschool children about historical catastrophes and atrocities, but whenselecting the means we ought to expect similar standards as apply to therelease of horror movies.That this kind of “education” has a traumatizing effect indeed, I wishto illustrate with three examples which I have experienced myself. Ihave obtained emails from German students on an irregular basis whohad accidentally gotten to my former website. They told me that theywere at that time in the United States as exchange students and that theywere just learning about the Holocaust in their history classes. As Germansthey suddenly saw themselves cornered by the other students andbesieged with reproaches and accusations as to how the Germans couldhave possibly done that to the Jews in those years. These German exchangestudents were desperately looking for arguments to defendthemselves, as they were suddenly ostracized and turned into scapegoats.132