THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTafter they had seized power—intended to ‘gas’ the Turkish immigrantsresiding in Germany. Wouldn’t it have been easy to have introducedthe idea of disputing the Holocaust at such a time?I had a chance to do this in the spring of 1989, when one of myfriends, who had left the ‘liberal’ FDP shortly before to join the Republikaner,addressed the Holocaust issue in one of our discussions. Herecommended that I read the book Was ist Wahrheit, (What is Truth)by the socialist Frenchman, Professor Paul Rassinier. 30 This may beregarded as the first fully revisionist book ever published. It deals withthe supposed extermination of the Jews from the point of view of aformer member of the French Resistance who had been incarcerated bythe Germans in several concentration camps during WWII.The remarkable thing about the book is its author. Since he was internedin several concentration camps as a member of the Resistanceand was a pronounced left-winger—before and after WWII, he was aFrench member of parliament for the leftist socialists—he could not beaccused of wanting to whitewash anything or of having any kind ofpolitical agenda. Written in a factual and balanced style, the book waseasy to read; we discussed it, and that was all. I felt no need to devotemyself further to the subject, either through the examination of furtherrevisionist or establishment literature or through undertaking my owninvestigations. If there had ever been a political reason for an involvementwith Holocaust revisionism, it would have been when I wasthrowing myself intensively into debating on behalf of the Republikaner.…a neutral Swiss…The cause of my interest in the Holocaust problem, beginning inthe fall of 1989, came from quite another source, one that was onlysecondarily political and which had nothing to do with the Republikaner.In the fall of 1989, I bought the book Der Nasenring. ImDickicht der Vergangenheitsbewältigung (The Nose Ring—In theThicket of Coming to Terms with the Past) by the Swiss political scientistDr. Armin Mohler. 540 I had already received an earlier edition ofthis book as a gift from my mother in the mid-1980s. This earlier editionwas the result of an assignment given to Mohler by a semi-officialinstitute of West Germany. Mohler was asked to study how and when540 Heitz & Höffkes, Essen 1989.308