A Form of Collective Insanity is Now Sweeping Germany
Germar Rudolf, the "mystery speaker" who was scheduled to address
the Twelfth annual Institute for Historical Review Revisionist Conference,
(Sept. 3-5, 1994), explained why he was regrettably not able to attend
in the following statement, which was read to the Conference by Master
of Ceremonies Greg Raven.
Usually the whole audience is eager to learn who the mystery speaker
will be. This time, unfortunately, the IHR must deny you the satisfaction
of seeing this mystery solved in person. For reasons that are, regrettably,
not very mysterious, I am not able to appear for this Conference. I
want to tell you the reasons for this, but to maintain some air of mystery,
I will withhold my name for the time being. As I tell the story, perhaps
one or more of you will sooner or later guess my identity.
I don't need to explain to you that Holocaust revisionists are subject
to social ostracism, and in some countries even to criminal prosecution.
Therefore, I do not need to go into the details of my own story, which
is not so very different from that of others.
It began with my dismissal, without notice, from my position at the
Max Planck Institute. Then came the refusal by the University of Stuttgart
to allow me, at the completion of my studies, to stand for my doctoral
examinations. After this came the first police search of my home, which
involved seizing my computer, all my papers, my correspondence, and
so forth, leading to my criminal indictment on a charge of "incitement
of race hatred." Just two weeks ago police from the prosecution attorney's
office again showed up at my door, confiscating my new computer, the
printer, my address file, my calendar and planner, and much more.
The town I live in, not to be outdone, sent an official representative
to my landlord to open his eyes to what an "evil" person he had been
renting an apartment to. He was so intimidated that just recently, with
all sorts of great regrets and numerous excuses, he threw us out - a
happy event for both me and my wife in her ninth month of pregnancy.
And all this happening under the cloud of a press campaign of lies against
me that has gone on since this spring.
But I am not one to complain, because I knew in advance what would
await me - and I would do it all over again. After all, a German revisionist
is not considered reliable and trustworthy unless he has undergone at
least one house search! And whoever has not come before a German court
at least once must be suspected of being an agent of the German "state
security" counterpart of the old East Berlin Stasi.
Such blows of fate are worn like medals on the chest by German revisionists.
Nevertheless, the most recent blows against me by our self-styled "government
of justice" prevent me, for numerous reasons, from joining you as I had
wished - to report to you on the work going on in Europe in recent years.
The publication of a written account of all our battles has also been
greatly delayed by the same interference. I am certain, though, that
Messrs. Graf, Mattogno and Faurisson will be able to give a sense of
our activities, which I would like to merely sketch out for you now.
If the district prosecuting attorney does not foul our plans again,
an anthology will appear this year in Germany, a detailed study by a
team of 13 authors of the most important aspects of the Holocaust story.
In addition to an investigation of the purported gas chamber witnesses
of Auschwitz, it will contain several legal studies, including critical
examinations of Holocaust trials, among them one against an alleged
perpetrator (Weise) and a "denier" (Lüftl). This anthology will also
deal with the problem of statistics, through a comparison of two already-existing
works (by Benz and Sanning). Also in this work will be critical treatments
of documents, including the Wannsee Protocol, documents on "diesel gas
wagons" and purported photo documentation. The technical portion of
this anthology will include an analysis of aerial reconnaissance photos,
the chemistry and architecture of a working gas chamber, a thermo-technical
study of the claims of mass cremation, and analyses of the alleged diesel
gassings and the purported mass burnings in the Treblinka camp. This
detailed collective work will conclude with a look at the Babi Yar case,
which involves many aspects of the work cited above.
But something is missing in this study. All our work up until now
has aimed to show that things were not as portrayed. It was, in effect,
"destructive" research. What we will need in the future is less carping
about traditionalist portrayals of history, and much more work toward
a holistic alternative. Our challenge must be to write a comprehensive
history of the persecution of the Jews in the area ruled by the Third
Reich: one that says not merely what did not happen, but above all tells
what really did happen.
I do not know whether I will be able to tackle this very ambitious
task in the near future, or even to coordinate it. Since the recent
ominous conviction of Guenter Deckert, chairman of the right-wing NPD
party in Germany, it has become obvious to everyone that the German
justice system is no longer truly independent [of political pressure].
A judge now knows that handing down a mild sentence against a revisionist
means that he may be removed from the bench and socially ostracized.
Germany's most respected daily newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine,
regards "incitement to ethnic hatred" as a much worse transgression
when it occurs in an academic, scholarly guise. Our entire media and
all our politicians sing a rare choral song of agreement that the Holocaust
is in effect the foundation stone of the Federal Republic of Germany.
A form of collective insanity is now sweeping the country. It seems
as if pyres and stakes are being set to fire, this time to burn Holocaust
revisionists. I don't know where all this will end, but I do know this:
the truth may go under, but it cannot drown. In this spirit, I wish
you all a pleasant and instructive time at this conference.
Germar Rudolf's problems began in 1993 following the publication
of this chemical-technical report about the supposed mass killing "gas
chambers" at Auschwitz, and especially Auschwitz-Birkenau. He wrote
this detailed report on the basis of an on-site investigation, chemical
analyses of samples, and meticulous research.
"For chemical-physical reasons, the claimed mass gassings with
hydrocyanic acid in the alleged "gas chambers" in Auschwitz did not
take place" he concluded. "The supposed facilities for mass killing
in Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suitable for this purpose." The "Rudolf
Report" corroborates and strengthens the findings of earlier forensic
investigations of purported Auschwitz "gas chambers," including the
one by American gas chamber expert Fred Leuchter.
At the time he wrote this report, Rudolf- a certified chemist-
was working at the renowned Max Planck research center in Stuttgart,
and was a doctoral candidate at the University of Stuttgart. The "Rudolf
Report" was published in 1993 in a handsome, 110-page, magazine-size
glossy paper edition, with numerous photographs, charts, diagrams, and
more than 200 reference notes. The Rudolf Report is available from:
Focal Point Publications, Duke Street, London W1M 5DJ England.
Source: The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. XIV, No. 6 Nov/Dec
1994. Institute for Historical Review, P.O. Box 2739, Newport Beach,
CA 92659, USA. Subscriptions $40 per year (domestic).
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