Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY3. PassionThe indictment opines on p. 4 that the writings disseminated by mehave the tendency “to have an increased and intense effect upon thesenses and passions of the reader.” This expression is extremely imprecise.It is not even clear whether this is an indictable accusation, a factualstatement, or maybe even a praise. Authors and publishers who failto arouse the passion of their reader for their texts have failed their profession.And of course this arousal happens via the senses.The subject of the writings offered by me until recently is by theirvery nature fraught with emotions. Because views contradicting thepredominant opinion frequently have a passionate and intense effectupon the reader even if they have been expressed drily and in a factualway, which is true for most of the writings offered by me. Objectivelyseen, most of them are so dry and factual that they must be called boring.If the reader reacts to them passionately anyway, then this is due tothe reader or due to his conditioning in a society which has declared thistopic a taboo and hence has irrationalized it. Since the arrest warrantneither quotes examples nor defines what “increased,” “intense,” and“passion” means in this context and how and due to which criteria apenal assessment is performed, I can only reject such an expression asunconscionable. I may emphasize, though, that none of my writings areinciting to any kind of passion about the Jews as a collective, neitherpositively nor negatively.II. Promotion BrochureThe promotion brochure Heretics claim: “the Holocaust never happened”as well as the flyer The Holocaust Controversy, as quoted inexcerpts by the indictment, basically contain compressed summaries ofthe content of my book Lectures on the Holocaust, which is why Iwon’t deal with those quotes in more detail here. Merely the topic “restitutions”is dealt with in the Lectures only marginally and even thenonly tangentially in a different context. I may therefore address this topichere.147