Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYArbitrarySelection/EliminationNo Source Criticism– ignoring/repressing Quellenkritik– persecution of critics (revisionists,lawyers)– selection of statements confirmingthe known. To this Heiner Lichtenstein:106“A valuable witness, one of the few[SS-men], who confirm at leastsome of what has to be assumed tobe known anyhow.”This is running like a red threatthrough investigations and trials.ObjectiveSelection/EliminationSource Criticism– circumstances of statement: 107compulsion, threats, torture, suggestivequestions, uncritical rambling,influence by organizations,government authorities, media...– contents of statements:inner contradictions, contradictionto other testimonies, documents,material evidence, logic, technical& natural possibilities assessment of witness trustworthiness assessment of statement credibility= established historians & judiciary = revisionismdefense attorneys in this trial in one way or another can confirm frombad experience.From my study of countless books on the subject as well as thousandsof pages of investigation and interrogation protocols compiledduring German criminal proceedings against alleged National Socialistperpetrators of violent crimes, it has become clear that only such testimonieshave been selected as relevant which confirm that which hadbeen assumed to be known anyway already at the beginning of the trial.The statement by Heiner Lichtenstein, a journalist who has observedseveral such trials and has written several articles and books aboutthem, distinctively expresses this prejudice, as I have quoted in the table.This attitude runs like a red thread through all penal investigationsand trials. It is not restricted to depictions in the media and in literature,but also includes investigating officials, prosecutors and judges andsometimes even defense lawyers.The object of these trials was therefore clearly not to establishwhether, when and to what extent crimes had been committed. Instead,the only point was to pin the already determined guilt on the fitting defendantand to mete out a punishment.106 Heiner Lichtenstein, Im Name des Volkes?, Bund, Cologne 1984, p. 56.107 Germar Rudolf, Lectures, op. cit. (note 55) pp. 345-384.81