Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYguage publisher, Dr. Robert H. Countess, 28755 Sagewood Circle,Toney, AL 35773.2. In this preface he described how research of contemporary history ishampered in Austria and Germany in an unacceptable way by societalpersecution and legal prosecution, in particular when events ofthe Third Reich are concerned.3. After Prof. Dr. Werner Pfeifenberger had committed suicide afteryears of societal persecution, destruction of his career and his academicreputation, and finally after the initiation of prosecution dueto an article in an academic anthology, the witness took fright that hemight become a victim of such inquisitorial persecution due to hiscritical preface.4. For this reason the witness wrote a letter to Dr. Countess on 9 January2001, in which he explained why he was withdrawing his prefaceand was replacing it with a different one, which is basically vapid.In this letter he stated, among other things: “Last year a professorhere was driven to suicide with chicaneries due to a scientific essay.One has to consider each word thoroughly, and it is recommendablenot to even touch certain theses.”5. 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.6. 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 15In the matter of Germar Rudolf I request to hear the expert for contemporaryhistory Prof. Dr. Franz W. Seidler, expert on the history ofthe Third Reich, as a witness for the following probative allegations (tobe summoned via his private address).1. In a letter to Dr. Rolf Kosiek on 24 June 2006 the witness wrote: [ 289]“I have taken very seriously your request to write a scientific expertreport for Herr Rudolf Germar. Unfortunately this would render inevitablean appearance as an expert witness in court. One can envisionthe circumstances. For health reasons the physician has forbiddenany kind of excitement. You can imagine that my wife has be-240