THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFsettled with his landlord out of court.Seventh Step: Special TreatmentOn May 5, 1995, the GRÜNE/Alternative Liste (a radical-left environmentalsplinter party) of the parliament of Hamburg demandedaccess to court records in the Rudolf case. Though denied at first, asubsequent request for records access on July 3, 1995, apparently succeeded,689 although it is not legal to grant access to the court records tooutside persons who have no direct interest in a case. It is reasonable tofear that the records may have come into the hands of radical antifascistgroups, where data on witnesses could be collected and compared.The dot on the ‘i’ was the request on October 16, 1994, of the Projectfor Study of Anti-Semitism, Faculty of Humanities of the Universityof Tel Aviv, in which a certain Sarah Rembiszewski requested informationon the state of Rudolf’s prosecution. 690 The judges also wereaware of the world-wide attention on the case. Tel Aviv also pressedfor records access. Is it possible to hope that records access will remaindenied despite the ever more strident pleas out of Tel Aviv, inasmuchas the research institute has no legal claim to such access? Under currentlaw, access to court records cannot normally be granted to outsidepersons with no interest in a case. If it should turn out that Tel Avivgot access to the records without legal ground, that therefore Jews inGermany still receive Sonderbehandlung (special treatment), 691 presumablya copy of the records will soon appear in the offices of a universitythat probably would like to have intimate details of the revisionistscene in Germany. It is even likely the records will find theirway to other offices where a more active use might be made of them.Eighth Step: Destruction of the FamilyAfter his 14 months prison sentence was confirmed in March 1996by the German Federal Supreme Court, and considering the prospect ofperhaps even more severe convictions in several other pending crimi-689 Sheet 1411 of the Records in Trial District Court Stuttgart, ref. 17 KLs 83/94, with the handwrittennote by Dr. Mayer that access to the records should be granted after records had beenreturned by the defense.690 Investigation File 2, Sheet 876, in trial of District Court Stuttgart, ref. 17 KLs 83/94.691 From the letter of the defense attorney Dr. G. Herzogenrath-Amelung to the District Court ofStuttgart on this subject on Nov. 16, 1995, in Trial District Court Stuttgart, ref. 17 KLs 83/94.417