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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY2324252627282930The fact that there were doubtlessly disinfestation rooms in Auschwitz and other camps for theextermination of vermin with Zyklon B, which were also called “gas chambers,” and that accordingto the established opinion, challeneged by the revisionists, though, likewise “gas chambers”were in use for the mass killingof humans, is in itself a problematic issue which calls for aclarification. It should furthermore not be overlooked that the earliest reports about mass killingsby gassings stem from World War One and were published by the same newspaper – theDaily Telegraph – which was probably also the first one to bring a corresponding news item in1942. (Walter Laqueur, Was niemand wissen wollte. Die Unterdrückung der Nachrichten überHitlers “Endlösung,” Frankfurt 1981, p. 17). Hence it may by no means be considered rightfrom the start as proof of a mendacious disposition, if the “gas chamber thesis” is seen as warpropaganda. This thesis, retained and maintained by the revisionists, could rather be seen as anatural point of departure, which was abandoned only under the impression of the abundance ofaccounts.Since I am paraphrasing Rudolf’s and Faurisson’s opinions, I have to put “gas chambers” betweenquotation marks, as I did earlier.“Auschwitz. La memoire du mal,” p. 44.Deborah E. Lipstadt, Betrifft: Leugnen des Holocaust, Zurich 1994, p. 260.The Demjanjuk trial in Jerusalem might illustrate the second part of this statement, but a relationto the first and much more serious part cannot be established from this.Thus J. Graf, Der Holocaust-Schwindel (note 9), p. 66.It is characteristic for the deep trenches between the individual disciplines of even the historicalscience that no one has apparently noticed, how closely adjacent, indeed almost identical theearly victim numbers are (1,750,000) of the “Red terror” in Soviet Russia on the one hand andthe corresponding numbers in the so-called WRB-Report about Auschwitz of November 1944on the other hand (S.P. Melgunow, Der rote Terror in Rußland 1918-1923, Berlin 1924, p.168). It goes without saying that one cannot conclude from this that the inmates Vrba andWetzler, who had escaped from Auschwitz, were familiar with the book by Melgunow or thearticle it is base upon by an author of the name Sarolea, published in November 1923 in theScotsman. This is an objective equivalent which cannot be eliminated by the term “relativation.”Jäckel-Rohwer (note 12), p. 177.Addendum 2006Much has happened since I wrote this expert report more than tenyears ago, and one could think that the expert report has lost its valuewhich it might have had back then. Herr Germar Rudolf has been sentencedto a prison term without probation – according to my knowledgeprimarily due to the [book] Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte 294 – but heavoided serving this sentence by fleeing or “emigration” to England andthen to the U.S. There he unfolded a very broad “revisionist” activity,primarily as the editor of the [journal] Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung[Quarterly for Free Historical Research]. His applicationto grant him asylum in the U.S. was denied, and he was extradited295 to Germany, where he probably has to expect a new trial in additionto serving his older punishment. I agreed to my expert report of1995 being used in this trial, because I have the impression that the intellectualand legal situation has essentially not changed, because the294 Correct: due to the Rudolf Report; GR.295 Correct: deported; GR.285