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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYdexed it in the same way. 185 The almost mechanical, repetitive characterof the pseudo-arguments contained in the indexing decision gives theimpression that the indexing happens with a cookie-cutter approach bya bovine administrator mentality.3. Giant with Feet of Claya) By way of introduction the following has to be stated about thisbook by Jürgen Graf: 186 Graf’s book is a critique of Raul Hilberg’sclassic work The Destruction of European Jews. 182 As explained inthe section about the nature of science, criticizing other works is notonly legitimate, but downright desirable. Hilberg himself repeatedlystated that revisionist criticism can be seen as something from whichone can learn, 187 although he seems to have exempted himself fromthis, as he never bothered to answer the critiques aimed at him in thenew editions of his books.If we take the title of Hilberg’s book as an assignment, then wewould have to conclude that he has missed his topic, because 90% ofhis book does not deal with the destruction of European Jews, butwith their legal disfranchising and persecution, i.e. with measuresnot leading to their physical destruction. For this reason 90% of Hilberg’sbook is irrelevant for a revisionist critique in a more narrowsense, because the issues dealt with in it are more or less undisputed.When it comes to concrete claims of extermination, the remaining10% of Hilberg’s book is based almost exclusively on witness accounts,i.e. on the hypotheses of lay persons. Hilberg quotes only afew documents and does not conduct any source criticism. Hence, hedoes not have a primacy of the archive.Hilberg’s book is therefore unscientific with respect to this chapter,and it moreover essentially misses the self-chosen topic. In everycourse of study with normal assessment criteria Hilberg would haveflunked his exam with this work.b) In their indexing decision the BPjM writes that Graf’s footnotes “referto the usual sources of Holocaust denial,” which is given as an185 Decision no. 5715, BAnz 20, 29 Jan. 2000.186 Decision no. 5959, 12 March 2001, BAnz 64, 31 March 2001 (www.vho.org/D/Riese); Engl.ed.: The Giant with Feet of Clay, Theses & Dissertations Press, Capshaw, AL, 2001(www.vho.org/GB/Books/Giant).187 See in Appendix 2 the motion to introduce evidence no. 18, p. 244.168