Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYfactually seen, not the most suitable symbol for the much more comprehensiveevents of the National Socialist attempts of a “final solution ofthe Jewish question” in Europe. Instead of “Holocaust” or “Auschwitz”I therefore use here the term “final solution” as an acronym. All of theso-called Holocaust deniers are radical revisionists with regard to the“prevailing opinion” of the established or “orthodox” historians, whoconsider the million-fold mass killings with poison gas in Auschwitz,Treblinka and other extermination camps as a self-evident and henceindisputable fact. I speak {p. 2} abbreviatingly of “revisionists” on theone hand and of “established” or “orthodox” on the other.I have expressed myself frequently about this topic during the pastthree decades, although always by way of interpretation, since I havenever been an “expert” on questions about the final solution, but merelyhad and have a passable knowledge of the literature. Such statementsare simply inevitable when writing a book with the title Der Faschismusin seiner Epoche (1963) [Fascism in its epoch; Engl. title: Three facesof fascism, 1965]. In hindsight I have to say that from today’s point ofview my knowledge was small and was mainly restricted to the volumesof the documentation about the Nuremberg trial against the main warcriminals and in addition to the notes by Rudolf Höss and Kurt Gersteinas well as to the books by Reitlinger and Hilberg. I did not encounterany doubts which had to be taken seriously, but this attitude, which maybe called “uncritical,” was not different to that of the defense lawyersduring the Auschwitz trial. Hence there was no discernible cause that Ias a historian of ideologies, which I am, could not reach to conclusionslike the one that Auschwitz is as certainly intrinsic to the principles ofNational Socialist race teachings as is the fruit intrinsic to the seed. 2About the specific events I did not say much more than the following:“And since early 1942 the extermination is being planned on a bigscale, but at once compartmentalized and industrialized. The allegedJewish commissars in Moscow and the alleged Jewish bankers in NewYork, which are waging the war, are unreachable; hence their allegedbiological basis has to be stricken, and in infinite {p. 3} columns oftrains the impoverished Jewish proletariat is rolling, and the remaindersof European Jewry is rolling into the gigantic workshops of fast andhygienic annihilation.” But my thorough analysis of Hitler’s “worldview” boils down to the fact that this process, kept as such a secret, thefinal solution with a meaning no longer merely “territorial,” neverthelesscorresponded to the central intention of National Socialism, 3 and I263