THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFFrom pole star to shooting starReligions expect their adherents to believe in certain dogmas, butthey do not demand doubters to feel guilty. At least the same must applyto science, where doubters should not be expected to feel guiltyeither. Here I was confronted with chemical-historical questions, andideally speaking, science knows no dogmas, knows no compulsion toobedience, and no punishments for those who contradict the prevalentparadigm.I therefore asked myself, why do western societies guard theHolocaust dogma closer than any religion does its own dogmas? Thereason is certainly that western societies, and in particular German society,regards the Holocaust as one of their moral foundations. This Ihave explained elsewhere, in the book Dissecting the Holocaust. 542 TheGerman elites almost uniformly maintain that the health and wealth ofthe German Republic depends on the observance of current descriptionof the Holocaust. In the German Republic, we are raised with the convictionthat the Holocaust is the moral pole star of our world-view,with respect to which everything else must be oriented.That was my own unconscious belief until I began to question thestandard historical version of the Holocaust. When these doubts surfaced,I was confronted with the possibility that the pole star mightturn out to be only a meteor, that everything which had been held asfundamental truth may in reality be false.MotivationsHere then are the reasons I have dedicated myself to revisionism:1. Because of my upbringing, I felt bad merely for doubting. I knewsomething was wrong with a society when it instills guilt-feelingsin its members simply because they dissent. The Holocaust is theone area, and almost the only area, where one is admonished toaccept facts blindly; not to think critically. We are taught to questionpractically everything else, even that which is kept in high regard,such as the reality of God, or sexual intimacy. We areprimed to be docile subjects and kept fearful of any transgressionswith respect to the Holocaust. That angered me then and it angersme still.542 2 nd edition, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago, IL, 2003, pp. 49-53.311