THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFtions—also they are polite.In their commentary, Report reproached Rudolf that he had usedthe names of well-known institutes and firms to give his report the appearanceof competence. In view of the facts just given, this reproachis both malevolent and ridiculous. Report’s additional assertion that acriminal complaint for fraud had been filed against Rudolf due to thismisuse of well-known names, was pure invention. Up to today, January2003, there have been no criminal complaints from any of the personsor institutions directly or indirectly involved in the production ofthe report. Report’s false accusation was a direct smear.Stefan Rocker also participated in an ARD-Tagesthemen newsbroadcast on June 6, 1996, covering the book-burning trial of the bookGrundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, 620 edited by Rudolf, then before theCounty Court of Tübingen. A written version of this piece appeared inFAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) of June 10, 1996, p. 14. It beganwith the following sentence:“Everyman and the Arsonist: diplom chemist German [621] Rudolf,31, was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment by the Stuttgart DistrictCourt a year ago for incitement to racial hatred and denial of the holocaust.”Rudolf was also accused of having published a “pseudo-scientific”“hack-job” titled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, whereby he hadproven himself a repetitious right-wing extremist offender. It wasstated he had left the country and was sought by the police.The fact that 100 academics had placed an advertisement in theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung during the book-burning trial 622 whichcriticized the use of censorship and the violation of civil rights byGerman courts was termed a “frontal assault on the Federal Germanjustice system” in this commentary. Throughout that piece, the authorsthrew everyone who was politically right-of-center into one big brownbucket.Ripple EffectsIn mid-May 1995, the left-wing political TV show Panorama(again from the German public station ARD) reported on several me-620 Cf. chapter 11.4.2. in this volume.621 Should be: Germar. Error in Original.622 Cf. “About true and false Perceptions” (www.vho.org/GB/Books/cq/percept.html).389