THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTa) He did not have the source for the expert opinion at hand. 612,614b) He did not know who was responsible for the press notice. 613c) The person responsible for the notice was out of the office. 613d) The person responsible for the notice was possibly on vacation. 613e) Since Meinecke had said both b) and c) in the same conversation,he was confronted with the fact that he had contradicted himselfand that he must know very well who the responsible party was ifhe could say the person was not in the office. When asked if hehad not made a great pile of goat-dung with his press notice, heopined that no one was without fault. 613f) He would call Rudolf when he knew more about who was responsibleand what the source was. 613 As of January 2003, this has stillnot happened.The connection between the MPG and the unnamed expert opinioncreated by the phraseology of the dpa notice would suggest to thereader that the expert opinion was that of the MPG. The latter declaredby fax on April 12, 1994, that this was not the case and that the claimin the dpa notice was mistaken.After two weeks of silence, on April 13, 1994, dpa Editor-in-ChiefD. Ebeling of Hamburg, speaking for the agency, announced in a faxmessage to me that the unnamed expert would remain unnamed to protecthis privacy. Two days later, in an unsigned faxed notice, A.Meinecke denied my accusation of falsehood 615 and referred me to theEditor-in-Chief in Hamburg.The Technical IssuesAmong others, the dpa notice contained the following assertion:“Even if they [the samples] are from there [Auschwitz], accordingto expert opinion, it is certainly no wonder that no traces of hydrogencyanide were found, because cyanide compounds disintegrate quickly.”Evidently the writer of these lines does not know the differencebetween hydrogen cyanide and cyanide compounds. If he should wishto subsume cyanide compounds under hydrogen cyanide, which mightmake it easier for the layman to understand, then it is clear: This sentenceand the following one discuss the stability of cyanide com-614 Telephone conversation of G. Rudolf, Jettingen, March 30, 1994.615 Press release, G. Rudolf on April 8, 1994.386