Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYlic of Germany conducts book burnings in keeping with a sad Germantradition. During the Third Reich this was performed publically by Berlinstudents on that infamous evening at the Opernplatz in Berlin, atwhich Josef Goebbels was present and gave a speech.Today this is done in secrecy in order that the public doesn’t noticeanything.Heinrich Heine once wrote: 168“This was a prelude only. Where they burn books, so too willthey in the end burn human beings.”Hence, before you decide to continue on this disastrous path of theFederal German society by adding one more step, you should at leastknow what you are delivering to the flames. My lawyer will thereforenow file a motion to have my book read during these proceedings.(The court decides subsequently that the book will be read by thejudges in privacy. Three weeks pass before the next scheduled courtday. By then all judges and one lay judge have read the book, whereasthe second lay judge has read only the first four lectures, yet she statesthat she will read the last one as well.)1. General AccusationsThe prosecution’s claim is wrong that I would “deny the genocideorganized by the state” (p. 13, similar p. 17, point 2.c). The book expresslyconfirms that the measures of persecution of National Socialismagainst the Jews meet the definition of article 6, paragraph 1, of the InternationalPenal Code, which means that it was genocide even from myrevisionist point of view. 169The prosecution’s claim that I have given myself “a decidedly scientificappearance already by the title of the work” (p. 29) is absolutelyirrelevant, because the matter at hand is not whether I am scientific innature, but whether the book in question is. This statement proves theprofound lack of comprehension of the prosecution who apparentlythinks that the scientific nature of a work can be determined by theopinions and motives of its author. But that is not so. 170168 In his 1821 play Almansor.169 Lectures, op. cit. (not. 55) p. 520, see further down in chapter D.III.3.170 See ch. B.III.4, starting at p. 89.152