THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTmy scientific activity in this controversial area would conflict with thepolitical goals or principles of any party.Sheer horror…I should mention another reason that may be helpful toward understandingmy involvement. Until my first trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau, I had had no exact idea of the condition of the camp’s formercrematoria, in which the alleged ‘gas chambers’ were located, so Ihad no idea whether it would actually be useful to undertake technicalor chemical research. Before my first trip, I had thoroughly preparedmyself as to what I might expect with respect to the material remainsat, for example, ‘gas chambers’, if the generally accepted reports of themass gassings in Birkenau were correct. It was clear to me, for example,if one was to believe the eye-witnesses, that the roofs of themorgues of crematoria II and III should show three or four holesthrough which Zyklon B was to have been thrown into the room.On August 16, 1991, as I stood on the roof of morgue 1 of crematoriaII at Birkenau, which was usually designated as the ‘gas chamber’where the most mass-murders of the Third Reich were said to havetaken place, a roof which was in various stages of collapse and yet stillheld together and partially rested on supporting columns; a roof inwhich I could find neither breath nor trace of these holes, so that Iasked myself whether I lived in a world of madmen. I found myselfhorribly duped by a judiciary which had never thought it necessary tomake any special technical examinations of the alleged crime scene. Ihad been lied to by all the politicians of the world who to date hadfailed to assemble even the most minuscule investigation commission.I had been deceived by the innumerable ‘Holocaust historians’ who todate had not deemed it necessary to make any investigation of thecamps of Auschwitz or elsewhere, examinations which paleontologistsand historians of antiquity have undertaken on the sites of ruins andother remains of ancient settlements. And I felt betrayed by the naturalscientists and engineers world-over who swallowed any and everystory whatsoever from the ‘eye-witnesses’ without so much as a murmurthat the material remains, the supposed crime scenes, and the eyewitnesstestimony itself should be subjected to some rudimentary scrutiny.314