THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTmotivated by hostility to foreigners.An anti-fascist climb-downThe year 1986 was again marked by two events:First, I came to realize that the Republikaner, at least in the Bonn-Siegburg districts, were mostly a collection of hard-core right-wingerswho had been expelled from East Germany after WWII. At the onlymembership meeting that I attended, it was obvious to me that theycould not find anything more important to talk about than the questionof whether and to what extent West Prussia was German, and whetherterritorial claims to it could be asserted. This complete withdrawalfrom political reality accompanied by a failure to recognize that whichwas politically necessary at the time the world was debating the reunionof West and East Germany, contributed to my decision to leave theParty.The most compelling reason for my decision was a recognitionthat the party included more than a few former members of the rightwingradical party NPD, 534 with whom I wanted no contact. After amembership of half a year, I left the party in early or middle 1986.The second event that I wish to discuss here took place in January1986, at a convention to celebrate the 115 th anniversary of the foundingof the German Reich in 1871, organized by the student fraternity VereinDeutscher Studenten (VDSt, Association of German Students), andheld in Frankfurt. It was at this convention that I first learned that theVDSt Frankfurt was a nationalistically oriented student organization.And it was after this celebration that I had a long argument with a studentmember of this organization who claimed to be a member of thenationalist party NPD. The subject of our argument was the exterminationof the Jews. He maintained that the established description did notfit the facts, and that there were not, in reality, six million victims, butthree million at most. I was appalled by this manner of argument, andwill explain why.Repulsive numbers jugglingFirst, there was the natural repugnance aroused by a line of argumentwhich tended merely to diminish a few numbers, although the534 Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, National Democratic Party of Germany.302