THE RUDOLF REPORT

10. AcknowledgementsNot everybody who was directly or indirectly involved in creatingthis expert report or who expressed their support, can be thanked here.Also on behalf of those who cannot be mentioned, I am expressing mygratitude to the following individuals and institutions for their support: to the Forschungs- und Materialprüfungsanstalt (Research andMaterial Testing Agency) Baden-Württemberg, Otto Graf Institut,Department 1: Building Materials, Stuttgart, for informative discussionsand their permission to use their rich literature; to the Forschungsinstitut für Pigmente und Lacke e.V. (ResearchInstitute for Pigments and Varnishes), Stuttgart, for permission touse their library;to the research center of the VARTA Batterie AG, Kelkheim, forperforming mercury penetration tests of building materials; to the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (Federal Archive-Military Archive)in Freiburg for their information about Soviet tank enginesduring World War two; to the Degussa AG for sending information material on Iron Blue(trade name Vossen-Blau ® ); to the Detia Freyberg GmbH and ARED GmbH for their informationon Zyklon B; to the Institut Fresenius, Taunusstein, for giving me insights intotheir working and analysis methods and for their informative discussionsabout analytic problems; to the Institut für Umweltanalytik (Institute for EnvironmentalAnalytics), Stuttgart, for their co-operation with the control andexperimental analyses; to retired Major General Otto Ernst Remer, whose martial publicstatements were the reasons why this expert report became necessaryin the first place; to Mr. Karl Philipp, whose initiative on behalf of O.E. Remer andwhose logistic support enabled me to prepare this report; to Mr. Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson for critically reading the firstmanuscript in late 1991, and for supplying me with an abundanceof documentary material; to Dipl.-Ing. Winfried Zwerenz for offering me his rooms and293