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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYsionist material. If this material itself is legitimate, then so is promotionmaterial for it, for instance the promotional brochures quoted in the indictment.IV. Additional Judicial ObservationsIn no. 5 of volume 52 (May 2002) of the German journal Osteuropaan article entitled “The Number of Victims of Auschwitz. New InsightsBased on Archival Discoveries” 177 was published which was authoredby the Managing Editor Fritjof Meyer of the German news magazineDer Spiegel (pp. 631–641). In it Meyer stated that the total victim numberof the Auschwitz camp claimed at war’s end was “a product of warpropaganda,” but even the number of 1.5 million spread by the AuschwitzMuseum today is too high by a factor of three. Meyer considerseyewitness testimonies regarding mass gassing partly implausible, andhe claims against the official “truth” which is considered “self-evident”that, of the six homicidal gas chamber buildings which allegedly existedin Auschwitz-Birkenau, only two had actually served as sites of massexecutions.Although criminal complaints were filed and thus police investigationsinitiated against Meyer and the editors of this magazine for “Holocaustdenial,” these investigations were eventually shelved. 178 The PublicProsecution of Bochum determined in its ruling to stop the proceedings“that, on the background of the social adequacy clause of article86, Paragraph III, German Penal Code, as invoked by article 130, paragraphV, German Penal Code, a scientific debate about causes, scope,and consequences of the National Socialist genocide committed againstthe Jewish people must remain permissible,” a fact which also appliesto my book Lectures on the Holocaust, whose scientific depth andscope is much larger than the superficial and methodically questionablework by Herr Meyer, which for instance lacks any systematic sourcecriticism. 179 Meyer’s mere claim that certain statements are implausible,177 “Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz. Neue Erkenntnisse durch neue Archivfunde”178 Staatsanwaltschaft Bochum, ref. 33 Js 145/03 of 6 May 2003; Staatsanwaltschaft Stuttgart, ref.4 Js 75185/92, of 28 May 2003, confirmed by General-Staatsanwaltschaft Stuttgart, ref. 25 Zs1110/03, of 16 July 2003.179 Cf. the following critiques: Germar Rudolf, “Cautious Mainstream Revisionism,” The Revisionist1(1) (2003), pp. 23-30; Carlo Mattogno, “Auschwitz: Fritjof Meyer’s New Revisions,” ibid.,pp. 30-37; Carlo Mattogno, “On the Piper-Meyer-Controversy: Soviet Propaganda vs. Pseudo-162