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11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFparts of the book had scientific merit, phrases such as “supposed”,“presumed”, “burnt sacrifice of the Jews”, “imputed systematic nature”,“furious fantasies”, although partly drawn from citations of establishedpersonages, denied the Holocaust and therefore qualified asthe crime of incitement to racial hatred.A Historian’s Expert ReportJoachim Hoffmann was born on December 1, 1930, in Königsberg,East Prussia. Since 1951, he initially studied natural sciences, butlater changed to study modern history, eastern European history, andcomparative ethnology at the University of Hamburg and the FreeUniversity of Berlin. He ended his studies with a PhD degree in1959/1960. In the same year, he became Academic Director at theMilitärgeschichtliche Forschungsamt, the official historical researchinstitute of the German Armed Forces. He stayed in this position untilhe retired in 1995, more and more specializing on the German-Sovietwar of 1941-1945. He has published numerous articles and books andwon several cultural awards. Dr. Hoffmann died in February 2002. Thefollowing is the text of his expert report written in defence of GermarRudolf and his anthology Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte (Dissectingthe Holocaust). 583PreambleAccredited chemist Germar Rudolf has written me to request anexpert statement regarding an anthology titled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte:Ein Handbuch über strittige Fragen des 20. Jahrhunderts(Foundations on Contemporary History. A Handbook of Points at Issueof the 20 th Century), edited by Ernst Gauss and published in 1994 byGrabert-Verlag in Tübingen, Germany. The foremost issue was to bethe question of the work’s scientific, i.e., academic nature, rather thanthe content per se.As a historian specializing in recent and East European history, andon the basis of my decades of professional experience and practice in theacademic service of the Federal Republic of Germany, I am qualifiedand entitled to give an expert opinion on the matter in question.583 Also published in E. Gauss (ed.), op. cit. (note 22), pp. 561-564.371