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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYmight ever find for this. The shoe is on the other foot! And by the way:you can spare your efforts, Mr. Prosecutor, because Prof. Radnitzky hasdied recently.We are currently in the seventh decade after the end of World WarII. I myself am a member of the generation of grandchildren. Thismeans that my generation and I are made liable for something whichmembers of the generation of my grandparents are claimed to havecommitted. The right of us grandchildren to critically examine the historyof our own people and to speak out freely about it is curtailed. Myoldest daughter is currently twelve years old. In only six years she willbe of age. Then she, too, will be burdened with the full load of collectiveguilt, and she will not be conceded unrestricted civil rights. Mydaughter is part of the generation of great grandchildren! How long doyou intend to continue this perversion of legal norms? Another 100years? Or even 1,000 years?Which is really unique about this topic is the fact that seven decadesafter a lost war an entire people is still held under the victor’s mentalthumb in such a way. That has never been seen during the entire historyof mankind!One could of course argue that my statements in this section of thepromotion brochure are contradictory, because on one hand I write atthe beginning that I would not want to withhold reparation from anybodywho has suffered injustice, yet on the other hand I write later thatit is unjust for us to still have to pay today, especially in view of newfinancial demands. Because somebody has to pay after all, if a third partyis to obtain something. But this is actually only an apparent contradiction,because in the first part where I am critical I deal with new financialdemands escalating around the year 2000, which had beenclaimed by certain lobby groups by way of most dubitable methods,quite in contrast to justified claims by individuals. But I made no statementsat all about the question of whether these new claims are justifiedor not, because this is of secondary importance in the context of thebrochure. What really is to be thought of these most recent methods toexact “restitution” from many European countries has even been statedby several Jewish personalities during those years with very drastic150

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