THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFbeen informed in advance and did not intervene then. The only thingthat had changed were Remer’s public relation activities.The Industrious AdditionsAs if Remer’s industrious publicity campaign were not enough, inApril 1993, as my expert report was handed out for the first time, Ilearned that a one-page foreword and a five-page appendix consistingof a description of Remer’s criminal trial had been added to my report.548 I was not the least bit interested in whether or not the addedcommentary was criminally relevant. I only glanced at the forward andtook no notice of the trial description added after the end of my report.I was aggravated in that Remer had expanded and thus altered the textwithout authorization. Never mind what was in the commentary—itdid not have my approval and that was aggravating enough. But nowthat this report of mine had been printed, what could I do about it? Ithought that it was obvious that I could not be held responsible forsomething whose addition to my report I had had no knowledge of, notto mention that I had neither given my agreement to it nor had participatedin its preparation. So why should I care whether the content ofRemer’s commentary was criminal? As a matter of fact, I basicallyignored Remer’s comments. So it happened that I perused Remer’scommentary for the first time at the end of 1994, fully one and threequarters of a year afterward, after my own criminal indictment becauseof that commentary.The Hot PotatoIn any case, in early 1993, I was concerned only about my doctoralwork. This also was due to a passage in Remer’s appendix, whichmy doctoral supervisor held under my nose shortly after he—as allprofessors of chemistry in Germany—had received his copy. In theabove-mentioned report on Remer’s criminal trial, I had been mentionedin connection with the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Researchin Stuttgart. Though I was preparing my PhD thesis in theoreticalcrystallography at this institute, my research about the ‘gas chambers’of Auschwitz and my subsequent activities as an expert witnesstion of my complicity with him.548 See chapter 11.4.1. for the text Remer had added. Reprinted in German in: Herbert Verbeke(ed.), op. cit. (note 54), pp. 109-115 (online: www.vho.org/D/Kardinal/Remer.html).321