THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORTganization Vrij Historisch Onderzoek 637 ). Mrs. Evans was the mostferocious house-dragon that Rudolf ever met. When Rudolf moved out,he had to repair and repaint every little scratch on the skirting boards,every bit of chipped enamel on door frames and heaters, every tinydent in the walls before she would return his deposit. Surely it wasnormal behavior for Rudolf to take his belongings with him when hemoved out. It seems that when people read about their neighbors in thenewspapers, they see ghosts and goblins everywhere.Chris Hastings continued to make Rudolf’s presence and activitiesknown to a very large number of nosy and peculiar people. Heprompted them to agree that England needs a law to protect holocaustlore against scientific examination. And he prompted them to agreethat Rudolf should be extradited to Germany immediately.The results were not long in coming. The established media inGermany ground out another sensationalistic story. “Indicted Neo-naziin Great Britain”, blared the dpa (German Press Agency) on October18, 1999 (it was printed on the 19th in Rheinpfalz and other places.)“Holocaust denier hiding out in England” announced the leftwingStuttgarter Nachrichten on October 21, page 4. On October 31, ChrisHastings jubilantly announced in the Sunday Telegraph that Germanywould now seriously pursue Rudolf’s extradition. He predicted thatEngland would comply because Rudolf had not been convicted forholocaust denial, but for incitement to racial hatred, which is a violationof English law, too. 638 On October 22, the local press in Hastings,where Rudolf resided, chimed in with “Fleeing neo-nazi uses base inHastings” (The Hastings and St. Leonards Observer). The monthlyEnglish manhunter tabloid Searchlight joined the hunt in Decemberwith “Auschwitz liar hides out in Britain” on page 13. 639 Chris Hastingsadded more wood to the flames in his update of January 16, 2000:“Neo-nazi accused of ‘racial hatred’ goes on the run [...] Germany hasissued an international arrest warrant for Germar Rudolf, who fled toEngland to escape a prison sentence for inciting racial hatred.”The manhunt turned completely into hysteria with a BBC reportabout Rudolf on March 28, 2000, which was repeated the day after by637 Address: Castle Hill Publishers, PO Box 118, Hastings TN34 3ZQ, UK; online:http://vho.org/VffG638 This was echoed, e.g., by the Australian Jewish News, Nov. 5, 1999.639 The German matching piece to this periodical, blick nach rechts, started its campaign as lateas June 2000 with a contribution by Thomas Pfeiffer in the same style, of course.400