Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYbut it suppressed the obvious, namely that the heads of the respectivegovernments had predicted the extermination of neither the Germans inEngland nor the Japanese citizens in the U.S. and that none of them hadto wear humiliating tags. And today he has to accept that already withthis memorial book the factuality of this genocide of a unique kind isproved beyond doubt and that this misdeed cannot be restricted to theGerman Jews, although other aspects have to come into play then aswell. He will not lose the feeling of shame and agony, because he hasnot become guilty by any action, and he will also not reject them due tothe knowledge that similar deportations and mass killings have occurredearlier in other large European countries. Quite to the contrary, the feelingof dejection will rather increase when he realizes that these moreindigent and more forsaken among the German Jews were accused bythe National Socialists of being “enemies” because they were claimedto be the “creators of Bolshevism” and on top of it at once representativesof “capitalism.” Only one thing will he deny himself, as strong asthe temptation must be: to accuse the nation {p. 37} as such, to whichhe belongs, because he knows that the same kind of accusation wasonce directed against the Jews and that it drew its strength from thegeneral human urge to identify “the evil” and to find “culprits.”One should not ask the revisionists: “Are you, as we are, convincedof the existence of homicidal gas chambers?” One should rather askthem: “In the light of the Gedenkbuch, in view of that which is selfevidentand undeniable, do you feel a similar consternation, a comparabledespondence as it can be expected from every human being and especiallyfrom every German?” If they answer this question in a credibleway, then one may say: “Continue your research and present them inthe form of arguments. We will contradict your arguments with arguments,but we will not see enemies in you, but opponents instead.” Ifthe answer is “No,” then it would be too much of an honor to persecutethem as enemies; one should turn away from them and not talk aboutthem any longer.Notes1234Shlomo Aronson, “Die dreifache Falle. Hitlers Judenpolitik, die Alliierten und die Juden,” in:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 32nd vol., 1984, pp. 29-65, p. 60.Ernst Nolte, Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche. Action française, Italienischer Faschismus.Nationalsozialismus, Munich 1963 1 , 1995 9 , p. 438.Ibidem, pp. 437, 483.Ibidem, p. 407.283