Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYAnnex 13In the matter of Germar Rudolf I request to hear the expert for contemporaryhistory Dr. Walter Post, expert on the history of the ThirdReich, to be summoned via his private address, as an expert witness asevidence for the following facts:1. In a letter to Dr. Rolf Kosiek of 3 May 2006 Dr. Post wrote amongother things: [289] “A much more effective strategy would be, if thedefense demonstrated that in the meantime there is no self-evidenceanymore. Since the Soviet Union has collapsed and the EasternBlock has broken up, innumerable documents have become accessiblewhose content is at times in stark contradiction to the hitherto establishedversion of history.” The witness will testify to have writtenthis.2. The witness will confirm that, according to his view as an experthistorian of the Third Reich, there can be no talk [of it] that the traditionalversion about the extermination of the European Jews by theThird Reich is self-evident, but that instead “innumerable documents[are…] in stark contradiction to the hitherto established version ofhistory” of the so-called Holocaust, that is to say the NS exterminationof the Jews.3. The witness will confirm that it is the permanent threat of historianswith societal persecution and legal prosecution which keeps themfrom taking revisionist publications seriously in public or to even assumerevisionist positions, but not subject-specific reservations.4. The witness will confirm that the unanimity of established historianson many issues of the Third Reich exists only, because dissidents arebeing persecuted and prosecuted or are threatened with it.Germar RudolfAnnex 14In the matter of Germar Rudolf I request to hear the witness Prof.Dr. Ernst Topitsch, to be summoned via his private address, as evidencefor the following facts:1. In the year 2000 the witness wrote a preface for the English languageedition of the book by Dr. Joachim Hoffmann, “Stalin’s Warof Extermination, 1941–1945,” which he sent to the English lan-289 See the document at the end of this Appendix.239