Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYof human and civil rights, i.e., of freedom, Prof. Dr. Radnitzky wrotethe following in the May issues of 2003: 164“When I immigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany, I hadcome from the USA, I had passed my academic education in Sweden,and I thought I had come into a normal western country. Exoticpeople have cults of honor or of shame. In the FR Germany there isthe cult of inherited guilt: Guilt is not related to individuals, but to acollective, to the German people, it is inherited: racism! A curiositywhich turned out to be the continuation of the war with other means.One would assume that claims of collective guilt would be prosecutableas a violation of the human dignity of the individual. Yet theopposite is the true: In Germany one could potentially be punished,if one were to oppose the attribution of collective guilt deductedfrom a ‘singularity,’ because this is said to imply a ‘relativization,’which is allegedly directed against ‘human dignity.’ One needs touse terms from psychotherapy and religious sociology in order todescribe this phenomenon. This constant insisting on actions of thegeneration of their fathers and grandfathers – independent of theirown actions or omissions – is nothing else but a form of racism: Dueto ‘his’ past ‘the German’ is morally inferior.[…]This strategy has a rational purpose: If one succeeds to generateand maintain a feeling of guilt among the masses, then they will bedocile, ready to do penitence. And they will be susceptible to blackmail,also financially. Cui bono? Lobby groups profiting from thisare easily identified. Even politicians and the powerful in the mediahave a vested interest in this mass hysteria, not the least because itoffers them an opportunity to pose as moral role models and to eliminateopponents as immoral. In brief, there is a rational reason tojoin in the game for all decision makers involved.”I think this deserves to be read again.Hence, according to Prof. Radnitzky it isn’t I who is violating thehuman dignity of others by criticizing the prevailing state of affairs, butit is you, Mr. Prosecutor, as a representative of the state who is tramplingall over the human dignity of all Germans by forcefully enforcingcollective guilt, liability, shame, responsibility – or what other term one164 Prof. Dr. Gerard Radnitzky, “Der Schuldkult der Deutschen ist rassistisch,” eigentümlich frei,May 2003, pp. 34-39.149