THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTmany. I have described this in chapter 11.3. “Flaws of the State Underthe Rule of Law”. 550 On January 19, 1996, the Federal General StateAttorney determined that I was to spend 14 months behind bars, not formy report but for Remer’s commentary. The Federal Supreme Courtconcurred with this sentence in a decision on March 7, 1996 (Ref. 1StR 18/96). On Remer’s commentary, the District Court of Stuttgartstated in passing sentence (Ref. 17 KLs 83/94, S. 115):“Although the foreword and afterward did not explicitly accuse theJews of fabricating the descriptions of the Holocaust for political andmaterial benefits, in the view of the court the Remer version of the Reporthad the purpose of suggesting this and thereby arousing hostility towardthe Jews. This follows from the fact that the reader, believing the claimsof the Report to be correct and influenced by the tendentious commentsand rhetoric, would come to the conclusion that the surviving Jews as themost important witnesses of events, surviving relatives as directly affectedand Jewish researchers must have intentionally concocted falsereports on the Holocaust.”According to the court, then, Remer’s remarks were not punishableby themselves; only together with my report a reader so inclinedcould ‘read between the lines’ and would supposedly be led to hostilitytoward the Jews, and that is morally indefensible because it must beclear to everyone that one ought to be ‘a friend of the Jews’.Therefore, not only was I punished for a crime I had not committed,but for one which no one had committed.This would have made some sense, at least, if Remer had foregonehis commentary and I had been sentenced for my report and not forsomebody else’s commentary, but that was not the case.In ExileOn May 7, 1996, the criminal trial against me and others for thepublication of the book Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte 551 (for this, seechapter 11.4.2.) began before the County Court of Tübingen. The sentencethat could be imposed by such a court was one to four years imprisonment.Since I had already been sentenced to 14 months of imprisonmentwithout probation, the sentence for me this time would550 Published in German in Herbert Verbeke (ed.), op. cit. (note 54), pp. 59-63 (online:www.vho.org/D/Kardinal/Webfehler.html).551 See the English translation Dissecting the Holocaust, op. cit. (note 22).324