August 16, 2006
Amnesty International
D-53108
Bonn
Germany
Sir/Madame:
I have been informed that one of the main purposes of your organization
is to defend human rights worldwide. I am writing to you now to
inform you of a very serious human rights violation that is taking place
in your own nation, and to request that you would publicly speak out
about it.
Mr. Germar Rudolf, a former chemistry doctoral candidate at the prestigious
Max Planck Institute, is a German citizen who was forced to flee his
native Germany because he has questioned and refuted certain aspects
of the Jewish Holocaust story. In short, I believe that he showed
that the alleged Auschwitz gas chambers never existed. In the
United States, near Chicago, Revisionist scholar Rudolf was recently
torn from his American wife and their child and delivered to Germany.
He is in prison in Stuttgart.
(You can read Germar Rudolf’s scientific report on the alleged Auschwitz
gas chambers at
http://vho.org/GB/Books/trr/index.htmll
)
In Germany, freedom of research is guaranteed by the constitution.
Yet, this self-same civil right evaporates if a scholar asks certain
questions about the Holocaust and comes to answers unwelcome by the
authorities. That is to say, in Germany a scholar and publisher
of scientific material can be jailed for his views, peaceful and scientific
as they are.
Freedom of research can only exist where one is allowed to ask questions
and to give answers exclusively arrived at by the evidence, but not
by orders from the government or by penal law. Where humans are
prohibited to ask questions and to give answers, not only does science
cease to exist, but humanity itself.
To be perfectly specific. Scientist Rudolf asked questions
about the Auschwitz gas chambers, and he gave answers exclusively arrived
at by the chemical and toxicological evidence. In this case, science
has ceased to exist and blatant tyranny is the order of the day, because
he has been imprisoned for his findings.
In response to my accusations, you may defend your government’s actions
with the following line of reasoning: “What Germar Rudolf says about
the Holocaust is racist hate speech that must be banned in order to
prevent another resurgence of Nazism in Germany. His stuff is
an incitement to hate. Therefore he deserves imprisonment.”
Even if what Rudolf has to say about the Holocaust ideology is “racist
hate speech,” it still could be true. Simply labeling a
viewpoint as “racist hate speech” in no way disproves the viewpoint.
But let us give your government the benefit of the doubt and assume
that everything (!) that Rudolf says about the Holocaust is indeed
100% false, and that it is indeed “racist hate speech.” A truly
democratic society grants its citizens the right to be hopelessly and
demonstrably wrong. The right to freedom of speech is not to be
applied selectively, depending upon the nature of the viewpoint in question.
It is to be applied universally and consistently to all members of a
democratic society. If it means anything at all, freedom of speech
means the right to hold and expound controversial and unpopular opinions.
Don’t imprison Rudolf. Release him and defeat his ideas in open
and democratic debate.
If contemporary Germany truly were a liberal democracy that respected
everyone’s right to freedom of expression, the German government would
release Germar Rudolf and defeat his ideas in a nationally televised
debate. This would be the way that you could help to prevent the
resurgence of a dictatorial and oppressive National Socialist form of
government. By releasing Germar Rudolf and engaging him in open
debate, this would show the German people that a democracy that respects
everyone’s right to freedom of opinion and expression is superior to
a right wing dictatorship that suppresses freedom of speech.
Let us again give my critics the benefit of the doubt and assume
that Rudolf’s work is indeed an incitement to hate. If you ban
hateful material and imprison its authors because their work is an incitement
to hate, then, to be fair, you would have to imprison Jewish rabbis
that publish certain Jewish religious literature in Germany. Indeed,
the late Israeli scholar Israel Shahak showed in his scholarly study,
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years,
that the Jewish Talmud, some important Judaic religious publications,
and certain rabbinical laws actually incite Jews to hate non-Jews. So,
to imprison Germar Rudolf because he has published incitements to hate,
but then allow Jewish people who publish hateful parts of the Talmud,
some important Judaic religious publications, and certain rabbinical
laws go free, is to engage in selective justice. And selective
justice is in fact injustice.
In a word, the continued imprisonment of my friend and colleague
Germar Rudolf (and others like him) for expressing their opinions on
the Holocaust ideology only serves to undermine the German people’s
faith in your so-called “democracy.”
As I said at the beginning of this letter, I ask that you publicly
speak out on behalf of Germar Rudolf.
Mr. Rudolf can be contacted at:
Germar Rudolf
JVA Stammheim
Asperger Str. 60
70439 Stuttgart
Germany
I await your response.
Sincerely,
Paul Grubach
Copy: Germar Rudolf