THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTnihilation camp. The attorney read how there had been a brothel forprisoners in Lager Auschwitz, that there had been weekly soccergames between SS staff and camp inmates, that there was a centralsauna, that legal advice was available to the inmates, that in case ofnon-natural death the camp administration had to notify the appropriateState Attorney with over 30 signatures, that prisoners could be released,that SS-men were not allowed to hit prisoners, that 4,800 sickpersons were under medical care (although in the usual version, theylanded in the ‘gas chambers’ right away), and that, when the camp wasabandoned, the prisoners preferred evacuation by the SS over Soviet‘liberation’…The State Attorney roarsThis piece of evidence made the State Attorney roar. “This pieceof evidence is an insult to the victims”, he yelled into the courtroomwith a red face. Herrmann replied, “Then your victims were insulted bythe decision in the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, Herr State Attorney.Most of what I have just read are observations of the court in the greatAuschwitz trial in Frankfurt. You can read them in the decision.” Atthis the State Attorney was speechless. It is peculiar, how a State Attorneycan free himself from almost any evidentiary difficulty withonly two magical words: ‘common knowledge’. He knew nothingabout the decision in the National Socialist trials and he knew next tonothing about historical connections or physical facts. All a state attorneyneeds in such a case is to be able to pronounce the words, “deniedon account of common knowledge.”The court refused to accept this evidence. That is, it refused to acceptwhole passages from the decision in the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurtas well as passages from the writings of ‘survivors’ such as Langbein.Naturally, on account of “common knowledge”.The English crown: no gassingsAs part of the evidence he submitted, Dr. Schaller presented thebook of Jewish Princeton Professor Arno J. Mayer. In his book, Mayerconcludes that the majority of Auschwitz prisoners died of naturalcauses and that there was no “Hitler order” for the ‘gassing’ of theJews. Mayer confirms that “proofs” for the gas chambers are “rare andunreliable”. As evidence against the ‘common knowledge of gas360