Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYU.S. Yet no sooner had I been deported to Germany and incarceratedthan Prof. Maser didn’t know me anymore.The word “professor” derives from the Latin language and refers toa person who professes – his opinion, but above all also the academicprinciples. But little can be sensed is this regard from German historiansof modern history. David Irving once said that German historians areeither liars or cowards – or both. Unfortunately I have to agree with Mr.Irving for the most part, although there are also exceptions, which Ihope to be able to explain later. 246Hence so far no remedy could be expected from scholars either.Even though it would be so easy, if only they all stuck together andstood up publicly all at once. In fact millions of people think: “I alonecannot change anything anyway.” Those millions only need to be awarethat they are not alone. Then this pandemonium here would pretty soonbe over.6. Remedy by the MediaThe media should see it as one of their most important tasks to bethe guardians of free speech, and not only for their own opinion. Butregarding revisionism the opposite is the case. In that case they evenshout “Hang them higher!” and thus they bite the very hand that feedsthem. Exemplary for this is the Rhine-Neckar edition of the Germantabloid Bild, which headlined on the day my trial commenced: “Rabblelawyer defends neo-Nazi.” 247There is a reason why I carry this article with me today, because Ireceived it from a co-inmate. On the morning after this first trial day Igot to feel the effect of this media agitation. While I sat at my workbenchdoing my work, I was accosted by a German-Russian co-inmatewith a threatening voice, asking me whether I am a Nazi. After I hadsimply denied it, he retorted why then the Bild newspaper would claimthe opposite. Upon my remark that the Bild newspaper is lying, hesnarled at me in an ever more aggressive voice why the Bild should lie.“Because they hate me,” I answered. His reaction to this was to threaten246 Cf. the expert report by Dr. Olaf Rose in Appendix 3.1., p. 258.247 Rhein-Neckar edition of the German tabloid Bild, “Pöbel-Anwältin verteidigt Neonazi,” 13Nov. 2006, p. 6.200