THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORT2. Because of my doubts, my entire outlook on life became unstable.I was no longer certain what was correct or incorrect, who lied andwho told the truth. The eternal conflict of good and evil was revivedin me. The question where the truth could be found concerningthe Holocaust was so important, that I knew I could only recovermy peace of mind by finding out for myself, personally,where the truth lay. I wanted to rid myself of uncertainty one wayor the other.3. There is no scientific area in which those who hold dissident opinionsare persecuted more mercilessly by the ‘ruling order’ thanthat of revisionism. That is probably why most people don’t wantto touch it, and most avoid it by convincing themselves that thesubject is not relevant to current problems. But for me, this draconianpersecution is the best proof there is that this is a crucial subject,because the powers that be regard it as most important thatnobody touches this taboo. Comprehensive and critical research inthis area is therefore very important for scientific, political and socialreasons. 5434. The treatment of revisionism and its proponents in areas of science,journalism, politics and law is a scandal worldwide—it demandsredress.Almost stopped…Up to the beginning of my PhD studies in the fall of 1990, I hadread only two books on the subject: Wilhelm Stäglich’s Der AuschwitzMythos 41 and the book by Kogon and others entitled NationalsozialistischeMassentötungen durch Giftgas. 42After reading these books I collected information on the so-calledZündel trial in order to find out what arguments had been made there. Ihad discovered in winter 1989/1990 that Zündel, who had commissionedthe Leuchter Report, was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. This revelationhad the equivalent effect of a kick in the stomach, because now Ihad to deal with the possibility that the Leuchter Report was not theindependent report of an apolitical American technician, but merely theinstrument of a German-Canadian Neo-Nazi. But such considerationscould not remove the points made by Leuchter and therefore could not543 See also my paper “Wissenschaft und ethische Verantwortung”, in Andreas Molau (ed.), Oppositionfür Deutschland, Druffel-Verlag, Berg am Starnberger See 1995, pp. 260-288.312