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THE RUDOLF REPORT

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GERMAR <strong>RUDOLF</strong> · <strong>THE</strong> <strong>RUDOLF</strong> <strong>REPORT</strong>statement. Böck had witnessed the gassings in two farm-houses whichnever existed, according to a technical report of HANSA LUFTBILD,which analyzed Allied air-reconnaissance photos. The expert witnesscould also prove that hydrogen cyanide is a colorless poison. The expertwitness was sitting in the courtroom. He could provide clarification.What did the State Attorney have to say about that?“I move that the expert witness be refused, since the gas chambersare common knowledge fact”, was State Attorney’s monotonous refrain.He demanded that the expert witness be refused without histechnical qualifications having been examined. The court agreed withthe motion of the State Attorney and refused the expert witness, withouthaving heard a word he had to say, as “completely unsuitable evidence”.In addition, the court refused to read the expert report, becauseof ‘common knowledge.’No one can see the Auschwitz death-booksAttorney Herrmann next submitted a large selection from the officialdeath books of Auschwitz. In 1989, these death books had beenreleased by the Soviet Union. These official papers documented 66,000cases of death in minute detail. All of them are under seal at the specialeffects office in Arolsen. No one is allowed to look at them. A tencountry commission, including Israel, prevents any inspection of thesedocuments. Recently, the journalist W. Kempkens succeeded in photocopyingthese documents in the Moscow archive. Herrmann submitteda representative sample to the court. The defense attorney moved thatKempkens be allowed to testify. The Holocausters keep talking abouthow the old and unfit-for-work Jews were sorted out on the ‘ramp’ and‘gassed’ immediately, so they could not have been entered in the campregister. The death books prove the opposite. Most of the entries wereelderly men and most were Jews. The State Attorney moved that thedocuments should not be admitted as evidence, since the gas chambersare ‘common knowledge’ fact. The court agreed with the motion of theState Attorney.The State Attorney’s pleadingAt that point, the taking of evidence was ended and the State Attorneybegan his pleading. He did not need any evidence, since for himthe ‘gas chambers’ are ‘common knowledge.’ He described Remer as362

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