Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYsequently cremated without leaving traces, then one must accept theconsequence that it is being investigated whether such an egregiousprocess was technically possible. To my knowledge there exists in theestablished literature no parallel to the amount of work put into thisstudy; according to my judgment, an objection that could perhaps beraised against this extraordinary reduction of the actual victim numberis the fact that under exceptional circumstance it is exactly the primitivewhich can be more efficient than the modern and that which is taken forgranted in nowadays’ crematories – similar to the Soviet battle tank T34, which has been superior in its primitivity to the German tanks forsome time.The contribution by Friedrich Paul Berg on the diesel gas chamberschallenges the prevailing view less than the study by Mattogno andDeana, and at the end the author tendentially retracts his main thesis.This essay nevertheless has to also be added to those challenges whichforce the established position to turn its attention more to that which sofar has been considered unproblematic.The statements by Arnulf Neumaier on the “Treblinka Holocaust”have an anti-Semitic tone to them, for instance when he talks about thecontinuity of “oaths of vengeance and instinctive hatred of the Old Testament.”However, references to national {p. 25} or religious traditionsare not impermissible in and of themselves, and with a different point ofreference they can frequently be found in the established literature aswell. It has to be considered as unseemly and a violation of scientificmaxims, though, when Neumaier illustrates his (presumably justified)polemics against the notion of the combustibility of corpses withoutfuel with a reproduction of the story of “little Pauline” from [the Germanfairy tale book] Struwwelpeter. Yet his objections against the possibilityof many hundreds of thousands of corpses disappearing tracelesslycannot be withheld from a discussion. The reference to the extraordinaryachievements of which prehistoric research is capable whendetecting prehistoric fire places with the help of the natural sciences’methods, can just as little be shrugged off with the wave of a hand.The essay by Herbert Tiedemann about Babi Yar is a denial which atfirst glance was downright unfathomable to me. As far as I know, noteven Robert Faurisson has denied the correctness of the reports by theEinsatzgruppen; hence the suspiciousness against documentary evidencehas been brought to an extreme here. The juxtaposition of contemporaryreports and witness statements is no compelling proof despite276