THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORT“Thank heaven, we live under the rule of law. Butunfortunately, that does not apply to the territory ofthe Federal Republic of Germany.”Johannes Gross, Capital, Germany, Nov. 1994, p. 311.6. Outlawed in the Federal Republic of GermanyThe Disfranchisement of Unwelcome Citizens 642In antiquity and in the Middle Ages, many European nations possessedthe legal power to disfranchise citizens for gross misdeeds.With the rise of secularized constitutional nations, the use of thispower disappeared until it resurfaced in the 3rd Reich as ThoughtcrimeLaws. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the possibility of farreachingrevocations of civil rights was built right into the constitutionin Article 18 of the Basic Law, but until recently no use was made ofit. Jochen Lober has shown that the equivalent curtailment of the civilrights of citizens has been achieved by extra-constitutional regulation.643 We will examine here Lober’s question, whether a form of defacto outlawry was introduced with the revision of section 130 of theGerman Penal Code, which made any kind of Holocaust denial—orrevisionism—and opposition to multi-culturalism a potential criminaloffense punishable by up to five years in prison. This will be done bystudying the fate of Auschwitz researcher Diplom-Chemist GermarRudolf. What happened to him will be examined phenomenologically,not chronologically, in order to focus on the effects of German criminallaw on the civil rights of German citizens.First Step: DenunciationFrom September 20 to 22, 1991, a seminar took place in Nuremberg(Bavaria) on Holocaust revisionism, sponsored by the libertarianBavarian Thomas Dehler Foundation.Among the participants, besides Germar Rudolf, there was a certainDiplom-Physicist Hermann Körber from Bünde. north Germany.His behavior during the seminar was highly unpleasant. During a dis-642 Written after reading the article by J. Lober in Staatsbriefe 7/95 mentioned in the beginning;taken from Staatsbriefe 12/95, Verlag Castel del Monte, Postfach 14 06 28, 80456 Munich,pp. 10-15.643 Staatsbriefe 7/95404