THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFtermined that there were only 45,510 deaths in the gas chambers wasnot strictly true. In 1965, the Frankfurt Jury Court had sentenced someof the former camp staff on grounds of murder of a certain number ofpeople by poison gas, and for other reasons. All told, it repaid 45,510gas chamber murders in that it found some defendants guilty of havingkilled or contributed to the murder of a certain number of inmates. Asto the question, how many prisoners had been killed by poison gas inAuschwitz all in all, the court had given no answer and did not havethe duty to do so. The determination of the total count of victims isproperly a scientific question. That having been said, this would alsomean that the Stuttgart Court did not have the duty nor the competenceeither to make a judgment about the total death toll of Auschwitz, thatis, it should not have criticized others for asking questions and havingdifferent views in this regard.It remains true that German justice has judicially determined afigure of 45,510 gas chamber deaths, no more, no less, and that anythingmore is a scientific question and not a question of criminal justice.It must be asked then, why one should proceed against peoplewith threats of criminal penalty and use of the magic formula ‘commonknowledge,’ who do nothing else but to assert that counts of victims ashigh as several hundred thousand or even several millions are greatlyexaggerated, particularly since several well-known mainstream authorsdo make similar statements. Only that can be judicially claimed to be‘common knowledge’ which has been determined to be so in court onexamination of evidence. With respect to the number of victims of thegas chambers of Auschwitz, that has not been done.In the written basis for the decision, as proof of their assertion thatthe epilogue of the Remer version had deliberately created the impressionthat the Holocaust was used by Jews to exploit Germany, theCourt gave this one example (decision, p. 235):“This applies especially to the reprinting of a letter claimed to havebeen written by a Jew on May 2, 1991 (p. IV of the epilogue, p. 113above). Together with the assertion that the Holocaust was an inventionof the Jews, this deliberately inflames hatred against the Jews.”In the epilogue in a display box one sees that Remer has quoted aletter with a sender’s address in Israel, in which the writer inquiresabout financial reparations based on the claim that his uncle was allegedlygassed in the concentration camp at Dachau. That this letter was347