THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTThe question, how these conditions can be overcome so that furthermisuse can be reduced as much as possible, needs to be answeredby honest jurists and politicians.Closing RemarksThe court based its refusal to allow for a probation of the sentenceof imprisonment not only on my supposedly high “criminal energy,”but also on the fact that I did not seem to have a favorable social prognosis,since I had not only not repudiated my revisionist views, butdefended them even more vehemently and kept propagandizing them.As proof for this the court pointed to the book Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte,570 edited by me under a pen name, which had come ontothe market just at the beginning of this trial, as well as to the almostcompletebook Auschwitz: Nackte Fakten 571 found on my computerduring a house search conducted in March 1995, i.e., right in the middleof the ongoing proceedings.With this, a fact was used to harden my punishment that had noteven been determined to be a criminal offense in a legally binding decisionby a German court in the first place, as was a work which hadnot yet been published and which therefore could not even theoreticallyhave been a crime. By German law, it is admissible for a Germancriminal court to take account of the opinions of the accused—here myhistorical revisionist opinions—in the weighing of punishment.Through this back-door, the trial against me was turned into a politicaltrial. 572570 E. Gauss (ed.), Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, op. cit. (note 43); Engl.: Dissecting the Holocaust,op. cit. (note 22).571 Herbert Verbeke (ed.), Auschwitz: Nackte Fakten, op. cit. (note 43).572 This article was completed after the house search of the small Berlin publishing house Verlagder Freunde at the end of November 1995 (triggered by a revisionist article of mine they hadpublished), when it had become clear that the documentation of my trial intended to be publishedby this publisher could not appear; taken from Staatsbriefe 1/1996, Verlag Castel delMonte, Postfach 14 06 28, 80456 Munich, pp. 4-8.344