Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYof these interpretations criticism can and ought to be exercised, but acriticism of a different kind which is aware of the “constructive” natureof all interpretations and which strives to gain additional insights for itsown conception.Not the historian but merely the jurist is competent to decide thequestion which statement has a denigrating or even insulting character.But the historian knows that not a few disparagements, even insults canbe found in the literature uniformly recognized as scientific, and he hasto plead for a careful approach in any case. But first of all he will wishthat the Court will become aware about the very complicated and historicallydiverse conditionality of an object like “revisionism” before ithands down a verdict.Ernst Nolte, Berlin, 5 Feb. 2006Notes1234567Thomas Sandkühler, “Endlösung” in Galizien. Der Judenmord in Ostpolen und die Rettungsinitiativenvon Berthold Beitz, Bonn 1996; Christian Gerlach, Kalkulierte Morde. Die deutschewirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik in Weißrussland 1941 bis 1944, Hamburg 1999.Manfred Gerner, “‘Schlüsseldokument!’ ist Fälschung,” in: Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung,2nd vol., issue no. 3 (September 1998), pp. 166-174.Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitlers willige Vollstrecker. Ganz gewöhnliche Deutsche und derHolocaust, Berlin 1996, p. 23.Peter Novick, Nach dem Holocaust. Der Umgang mir dem Massenmord, Stuttgart/Munich2001, pp. 21f., 14, 127.Yehuda Bauer, Die dunkle Seite der Geschichte. Die Shoah in historischer Sicht. Interpretationenund Re-Interpretationen, Frankfurt upon Main 2001, pp. 69, 83, 321, 244f.Tomasz Gabis, “Die Holocaust-Religion,” in: Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung,3rd vol., issue no. 4 (December 1999), pp. 410-417. When citing according to the revisionistjournal, I thus indicate that I consider the quotes reliable.Ernst Nolte, Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche. Die Action francaise – Der italienischeFaschismus – Der Nationalsozialismus, (first) Munich 1963, pp. 484, 512.291