THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTtember 30, 1993, 608 August 18, 1994, 609 and March 27, 1995 610 ). However,the headlines were occasionally ridiculous. For example, theheadline “Nazi book depot in Steinenbronn” appeared in the BöblingerBoten of March 29, 1995. In fact, there were neither Nazis, Nazi materialnor a book depot in Rudolf’s home.The authorized version of the expert report was published insummer 1993 in Great Britain with the title Das Rudolf Gutachten andhas been distributed and sold in Germany since then. 611 There has beenno echo about this version in the media.The media showed increased interest, when the 17th State SecurityChamber of the Stuttgart District Court began the criminal investigationagainst me on account of suspicion of participation in the preparationand distribution of Remer’s commented version of my report.However, they were not interested in the Expert Report nor in me, butmerely in the question, whether there should be made an example “topunish the right-wing” for reasons of public instruction.The trial proceedings did not center upon the actual contents of myexpert report, but on Remer’s political commentary and my (alleged)political views. This was despite the fact that prosecutions for dissentingpolitical views are forbidden according to the German constitution(cf. article 3.3. of the German Basic law). They have a strong tendencyto turn into show-trials, and this is exactly what happened in this case.Later on, several of the media reports that were published in thecourse of the hubbub over the Rudolf expert report and its author attemptedto critically evaluate how true—or rather how false—this expertreport was.On March 28, 1994, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG, M.-P.-Corporation), umbrella organization of some 200 Max-Planck-Institutesall over Germany and Austria—I had been a PhD student at oneentations. In addition, the German Federal court system includes State Security Chamberswhose only work is to punish politically motivated crimes. The prosecutors who work in thesecourts were politically trained to deal with such crimes.608 This house search concerned the commented version of my expert report distributed byRemer.609 This house search was due to suspicion of participation in the production and distribution ofthe newsletters Remer Depesche and Deutschland Report. (Seehttp://www.nationaljournal.org)610 This house search concerned the revisionist anthology edited by my under the pseudonymErnst Gauss entitled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte. op. cit. (note 43); Engl.: Dissecting theHolocaust, op. cit. (note 22).611 R. Kammerer, A. Solms (ed.), op. cit. (note 43).384