Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYthat the authors refer to Polish documents. Apparently there is someconfusion within the BPjM about the terms “source,” “evidence,”and “reference.” These are terms not defined by the BPjM, yet theypit them against one another, although they all basically mean thesame thing. Apart from this the question arises, how the BPjM wantsto know whether or not the German documents and Polish articlesquoted by Graf and Mattogno prove what they claim? Have the authorsof this indexing decision traveled to the archives mentioned byGraf and Mattogno and have they studied the content of these documents?That is hardly the case, or at least they don’t claim this.The accusation by the BPjM that Mattogno and Graf have “included[…] Hilberg and Kogon […] only once as a reference” but have notquoted them as a “serious historical source” reveals the incompetenceof the censors, because neither Hilberg nor Kogon are primarysources with regard to Stutthof or even serious secondary sources, asI have expounded before. Primary sources are serious sources, andthese are located in Polish archives.c) In summary one has to conclude that the authors of the BPjM’s indexingdecision do not have the faintest clue about the methods ofthe historical science in general, about the body of source material inthe present case in particular, about source criticism as a method,and not even about basic terms like “source,” “evidence,” or “reference.”2. Concentration Camp MajdanekWhat I have said about the previous book basically also applies tothe book Concentration Camp Majdanek authored by Mattogno andGraf. 162 This book is unique in its style as well, because prior to its publicationbasically only two other books about the Majdanek camp hadappeared in western literature, written by two journalists reportingabout federal German court proceedings surrounding events of thiscamp. 184 But these books cannot be taken seriously as historical literature.For some reasons this book has not been included in the indictmentby the prosecution, although the Federal Assessment Agency had in-184 Heiner Lichtenstein, Majdanek. Reportage eines Prozesses, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurton Main 1979; Ingrid Müller-Münch, Frauen von Majdanek, Rohwolt, Reinbek 1982.167