Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYGalileo Revisited 43The story goes that, when Galileo faced his inquisitors, they showedhim the instruments of torture. Whatever else he may have been, Galileowas also a physician, so he knew what metal does to flesh, hence herecanted.Not so Germar Rudolf.It’s also said that, in his recantation, Galileo crawled across the floorto his accusers.Not so Germar Rudolf.In a letter written by Germar from his prison cell he examines whyhe became a Holocaust revisionist and why he was prepared to pay sucha terrible price. 44 The fact is that Germar was never much interested inWorld War II or the Holocaust. What interested him were the whys andwherefores of lies, delusions and propaganda. Why are they created?How are they propagated, maintained and enforced, and why do we believein them? To him Holocaust propaganda is not a mere historicalissue but rather also an ideological issue. Nor does there seem to be anysingle motive for his interest; rather it stems from a mixture of personalhistory and personality. From childhood he was blessed (or cursed) withan insane curiosity and with what he describes as “a greatly overdevelopedsense of justice.” We also learn that he was brutalized by his father.In his typical German primary and secondary education, he touchedthe subject of the Holocaust several times:“The usual claims about it seemed indubitable, undeniable to me,truth chiseled in stone, self-evident.”But in 1989 he came across the writings of Paul Rassinier, 45 a formerFrench communist, partisan fighter, and inmate of Buchenwald andDora concentration camps. Rassinier heard stories after the war ofmechanized exterminations in Buchenwald – a claim he knew to be untrue.He wondered, “If they can lie about that, what else can they lie434445This section largely reflects the thoughts of the Deir Yassin Remembered UK Director, PaulEisen.Dated 27 Aug. 2006, in response to a letter to him by Israel Shamir;www.globalfire.tv/nj/06en/persecution/rudolf.htm; all subsequent quotes from there.In Rudolf’s case it was Rassinier’s book Was ist Wahrheit?, 8th ed., Druffel, Leoni, 1982;Engl.: The Real Eichmann Trial or The Incorrigible Victors, Institute for Historical Review,Torrance 1976.25