THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. Hunting Germar Rudolf11.1. What Makes Revisionists?Bavarian NostalgiaDuring the early 1980s, in my last three years at high school, I developeda passion for everything Bavarian: the soccer team BayernMünchen, Lederhosen, the dialect, and, of course, the Bavarian Party,the CSU, 530 which exists in Bavaria only. I also became a fan of Franz-Josef Strauß, who for many decades was chairman of this party andbecame kind of a symbol for everything Bavarian. I surely would havejoined the CSU, also because of its strong conservative views, but unfortunatelythis party was open only to those residing in Bavaria, whereI never lived.At that time, I also joined the youth organization of Germany’ssemi-conservative party CDU, 531 but was active only a short time, becausewhen my university studies took me to Bonn in 1983, I abandonedall political commitments for the time being.When I started to study chemistry at University of Bonn in the fallof 1983, Bonn, then capital of West Germany, was a hotbed of antigovernmentdemonstrations mainly by leftist students. The Germanfederal government, lead by CDU and CSU, had agreed to the stationingof Pershing middle range nuclear weapons in Germany by the US.Armed Forces and also planned a census of the German population.Both infuriated the German left, who was strongly opposed to any foreignmilitary presence in Germany and to any governmental intrusioninto the privacy of German citizens. 532 I, on the other hand, took theposition held by the German Federal government led by CDU/CSU,530 Christlich Soziale Union, Christian Social Union.531 Christlich Demokratische Union, Christian Democratic Union. They actually refused to becalled conservative, and rightly so, since only a minority of their members has conservativeviews, the majority having quite liberal views. The CDU has no section in Bavaria, where theCSU plays its role, though the Bavarian CSU is more conservative than the ‘Prussian’ CDU.532 Today, the German government consists of those who demonstrated against such politics inthe 70s and 80s, and as was to be expected, they do even worse in politics: They wage war inSerbia and Afghanistan, and they are increasingly dismantling the Germans’ civil rights.297