Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY[Two more quotes from my book and their discussion had to be deletedhere for legal reasons. Merely the last quote mentioned shall bereproduced here:]p. 527:“Be aware that we are dependent upon our human rights andtherefore never fall into the temptation to deny our opponents theirhuman rights.”And it goes without saying that that which is true for opponents isalso true for all other people, I may add. Hence, how can anyone claimthat I would advocate denying the Jews their civil rights or that I wouldmerely suggest such a thing, if at the end of my book I call for the exactopposite?4. SummaryThe book Lectures on the Holocaust is a work of tertiary literature,which means that it is based primarily on secondary, research literature(books, articles) and only secondarily on primary sources.In order to permit the reader direct access to the sources without adiversion via the secondary literature, I have frequently given in thefootnotes those sources which are quoted in the literature I have consulted.This is common practice for reviews summarizing research andeven inevitable due to the constrictions of space.In order to assess the book it is necessary to digest all of its 540 pages,and not just a few quotes ripped out of their context and thus entirelydistorted in their meaning, which moreover have been selected in such arecklessly biased manner that they have to shed an extremely unfavorablelight on the book. The withholding of all those passages refuting thisimpression, arrived at by dirty tricks, prove the malice of the indictment.Doing justice to the book also means to fully recognize the secondaryliterature used, whose extent is hard to quantify. During the pastyears the revisionist works among them have upstaged established historicalresearch both quantitatively and qualitatively. During the autobiographicpart of my presentation I introduced various books publishedby me, for which there is no match on the side of the established historians.176 There simply isn’t anything anymore that could refute the revi-176 Cf. the English language series Holocaust Handbooks www.Holocausthandbooks.com.161