Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYcamp, as is frequently claimed – like in the criticized FAZ article – butfrom a cobbler’s shop, which had employed inmates as forced laborers.From this I concluded (Lectures p. 17) that during the heated atmosphereof the final moments of World War II a conclusion had beendrawn prematurely which later turned out to be false. I also pointed outthat not everything which the media report, which one can read inbooks, or what museums want to sell us as the truth need always be theabsolute truth.This platitude ought not to be surprising news for anyone, really, butwhen applying it to the Holocaust as well, the public prosecution getsinvolved rapidly.In this context I may swiftly call attention to a book by the FAZjournalist Udo Ulfkotte with the title The Way Journalists Lie. 173 Thebook addresses lies, distortions, and exaggerations by the media in generalwith a host of examples. On p. 65 we read:“False reports play into the hands of revisionists, for instancewhen newspapers print falsehoods and revisionists subsequentlyseize upon this. One example for this is the title report of the [Swissnewspaper] Berner Tagewacht of 24 August 1945. ‘13 million murderedin Dachau’ it said there, and: ‘26 million murdered in Germanconcentration camps.’ This news release from Reuters led to aparadox situation: Holocaust deniers use this obviously false reportin order to cast doubt on the historically secured truth of mass gassings.”Ulfkotte does not substantiate his claim that we revisionists woulddeny mass gassings by using this false report about 26 million dead personsin concentration camps. This is simply not true.Already in the first German edition of my Lectures of 1993 underthe title Vorlesungen über Zeitgeschichte (Lectures on ContemporaryHistory) I had started the first lecture just as I did in the new edition,because I had introduced my lectures held in 1992 with a discussion ofthis false 26 million figure, which was also hawked around by the FAZ.Yet this false report about 26 million victims did not serve to doubtmass murders, but merely to make the reader aware that not everythingthe media tell us needs be true. As such I use this report in the sameway as Ulfkotte, who has dedicated an entire book to “media lies.” Beinga journalist of the FAZ himself, Ulfkotte repeatedly praises his own173 Udo Ulfkotte, So lügen Journalisten, Goldmann, Munich 2001.156