Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYseeched me to leave the fingers off it, for heaven’s sake. Age-relatedwe all turn into cowards.” The witness will confirm to have writtenthese passages.2. The witness will confirm that, in case he testifies on the Holocaust tothe best of his knowledge and belief, he fears to be exposed to societalpersecution and legal prosecution, which is why he refrains totestify in the first place.3. The witness will confirm that this fear of persecution is due to thefact that, if testifying to the best of his knowledge and belief, hewould have to make statements which run contrary to the prosecutionof the defendant [Rudolf].4. 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.5. 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 16In the matter of Germar Rudolf I request to introduce and read duringthe main proceedings the expert report by historian Dr. JoachimHoffmann, to be taken from the case file of the penal trial against WigbertGrabert, Tübingen County Court, ref. 4 Gs 173/95, as evidence forthe following facts:1. The report was recognized as an expert report by the above mentionedcourt, and it was introduced into the trial as such.2. The expert report concluded that the book by Ernst Gauss [=GermarRudolf], “Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte” meets the criteria of scientificworks in the field of contemporary history and should thereforeenjoy the protection of art. 5, para. 3, German Basic Law.Germar RudolfAnnex 17In the matter of Germar Rudolf I request to hear the expert historianProf. Dr. h.c. Emil Schlee, to be summoned via his private address, as awitness for the following probative allegations:241