THE RUDOLF REPORT

GERMAR RUDOLF · THE RUDOLF REPORT4.4.2. Forensics Outside the Courts4.4.2.1. In Search of Mass GravesIn 1966, the Auschwitz State Museum commissioned the Polishcompany Hydrokop to drill into the soil of the Auschwitz-Birkenaucamp and to analyze the samples. It is not known whether this researchwas done in the context of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. The results,however, vanished into the museum’s archives: they have never beenreleased, which by itself is revealing enough. Years later, however,several pages from this report were photocopied and sent to the Germanrevisionist publisher Udo Walendy, who published them withcommentary in an issue of his periodical. 86 Traces of bones and hairallegedly found at several places might indicate mass graves. The fewpages published by Walendy, however, do not reveal whether thesefindings led to an excavation or a subsequent forensic study of thetraces. It is not even evident whether the bone and hair samples collectedare human or animal remains.4.4.2.2. Faurisson and the ConsequencesAs a result of Prof. Faurisson’s activities as described in chapter3., forensic research on Auschwitz boomed since 1988. Each time aresearcher came to a conclusion contradicting the widely held views,he was socially ostracized and persecuted, like Prof. Faurisson, FredLeuchter, and Germar Rudolf, but when the results confirmed thereigning paradigms, the researchers were darlings of the media andpoliticians, like Jean-Claude Pressac, the researchers from the Jan-Sehn-Institute in Cracow, and more recently Prof. Robert van Pelt. 69It must therefore be stated that forensic research on Auschwitz isnot at all reprehensible, as stated by the Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart.Such research was always done, more or less intensively. What isoften considered to be reprehensible, however, is a research result thatis unwanted by the public. This is an unfortunate bias, because sciencecan prosper only where any result is openly and freely published anddiscussed without researchers fearing punitive measures.The present book is an attempt to give the reader an update aboutthe results of the ongoing forensic research on the two major camps of86Udo Walendy, Historische Tatsachen, no. 60, Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung,Vlotho 1993, pp. 7-10.46