THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFWhen Rudolf’s revisionist activity became known in spring 1994,the umbrella organization exerted pressure on Rudolf’s organization toexpel him. Because of this, his organization convened a session ofvarious of its members that spring, without the knowledge or participationof Rudolf, at which his revisionist activity was discussed. An expulsionprocess followed that held a hearing on August 20, 1994, andended by expelling him in the fall.This expulsion was by reason that: 683“The Holocaust and the acknowledgement thereof is the normativefoundation of our [German] Constitution. The legitimacy—in the sense ofworthiness of acceptance—of the Basic Law is based on the recognitionof the fact of National Socialist criminal measures by which Jews weresubject to a systematic technical mass murder. Inasmuch as FraternityBrother Rudolf raises doubts about the deliberate annihilation of theJews, he also raises doubts about the normative consensus on which theBasic Law is based.Content (normative consensus) and form (institutional order) of theBasic Law are inextricably interwoven and their substance cannot be altered.Thereby, Fraternity Brother Rudolf violates our Patria Principle.”The Patria Principle is one of the four principles of the semiconservativeumbrella organization. 684 Today, the principle is primarilyunderstood as meaning constitutional patriotism. It is left to the readerto judge the mental health of the lawyers that composed these pronouncements.The fact is that the decision to expel Rudolf because ofthe pressure from the superior organization was inescapable, and it wasadmitted that the decision would have been otherwise, had there beenno outside pressure. 685Sixth Step: HomelessnessWhen the police searched Rudolf’s home a second time on August18, 1994, the local media described him as a well-known right-wingextremist personality. In the small village of Jettingen, where Rudolflived at the time, it was thought necessary to do something to rid the683 Written decision of the Conduct Court, e. v. AV Tuisconia Königsberg zu Bonn on Aug. 20,1995, written by constitutional attorney Herbert Stomper. Rudolf’s appeal was rejected.684 The other three are: religio, scientia, amicitia.685 Testimony of union brother Dr. Markus Kiefer in the trial in the Conduct Court.415