Germar Rudolf: The Making of a Revisionist

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"In my view," writes Israel Shamir, an Israeli based dissident, "H 
approval is an approval of Jewish superiority and exclusivity, while 
H denial is a rejection of this exclusivity claim, and thus a duty of 
non-racist and/or a Christian."

Germar Rudolf is a scientist dissident who was recently torn from his 
young wife and baby in the United States and extradited to his native 
Germany to stand trial for a scientific investigation of Auschwitz, 
the best-selling Rudolf Report.  Born in 1964, he is one of the 
youngest high-profile Revisionists who came out of the post-war 
generation - young folks as a rule brutally brain-washed with 
conventional Holocaust lore.  Germar, as we know, is different.

Following is Germar Rudolf's response of August  27, 2006 from 
Stammheim prison to  Shamir's question: “What makes Germar tick, is 
it love to Germany or love to Christ?"

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I can not only understand Mr. Shamir's disinterest in WWII as such, I 
actually share it. For some reason people think that WWII is a main 
focus of my intellectual interest because I got my life entangled in 
Holocaust studies.

The truth is that I never cared for the history of any war as such. I 
do have an interest in understanding how and why wars get to be, the 
intrigues, schemes, lies, and propaganda used by all sides to justify 
it, and of course how this propaganda is afterwards maintained by the 
victorious side. People keep sending me books on WWII history into 
prison, and after reading just one of them - a study of Patten's 
campaigns - which was also the first book I ever read on battle 
history, I decided that this is quite enough. I didn't touch any of 
the others that were sent my way and put the general message out to 
put a stop to that.  I must admit that I do have a friend whose 
entire life centers around WWII, as he is a book dealer with the sole 
focus on WWII. Although he has thousands of titles on the topic and 
is quite an expert, we never talk about WWII when we meet, and I also 
never looked into - or received - a book of his collection, nor did I 
ever ask.

Holocaust propaganda is an ideological issue, not a historical [one]. 
I never focused on the actual aspects of persecution of minorities, 
Jewish or not, during WWII. It's not a pleasant topic, nor is there a 
need to deal with it, as there are plenty of scholars worldwide who 
make a profitable business out of doing nothing else but this.

No, it's propaganda - prewar, wartime, and postwar propaganda I am 
interested in, and how to distinguish it from reality.

I could very briefly answer to the question what makes me tick by 
pointing to my respective essay I wrote back in 1995/96 and [which I] 
have added as an appendix to my expert report, which can be read 
online at <http://www.vho.org/GB/b/trr>www.vho.org/GB/b/trr  in HTML 
format or as pdf at 
<http://www.vho.org/dl/ENG/trr.pdf>www.vho.org/dl/ENG/trr.pdf

But let me try to give a condensed version here. First, there is no 
single motive that got me to do what I have been doing during the 
past 16 years. Lots of it is personal history with all its 
imponderability and coincidence, and another huge factor is 
personality, my genetic make-up, if you wish.

Since I was a little boy I had the reputation of driving grown-ups 
crazy with my incessant questions, driven by insatiable curiosity. 
Add to that a greatly overdeveloped sense of justice, overextended as 
my mother claims, though I'd like to dispute that. All through my 
childhood my father has been brutalizing me to one degree or another, 
and my mother, in an attempt to prevent me from starting to hate 
[myself], found excuses in my father's own  [background], mainly his 
father's bad treatment of his children as well as their family having 
been expelled from Silesia after WWII, tossing them into poverty. In 
other words, my mother used the Poles as lightning rods for my 
suffering and the resulting feeling of injustice.

That is at age 18 (!), where my newly awakened interest in history 
started: The expulsion of 12 million Germans from East Germany and 
Eastern Europe. At age 18-23 I was a very patriotic German, still 
within the mainstream - I thought - yet at the right edge of it. This 
started to fade slowly later, for one thing due to stress during my 
university studies, but also because it became boring.

I never touched upon the Holocaust topic in any of those years. The 
usual claims about it seemed indubitable, undeniable to me, truth 
chiseled in stone, self-evident.

This changed in 1989 by pure accident, as I was handed a book written 
by Paul Rassinier, a former communist, partisan fighter against the 
German occupation in France during WWII, and eventually inmate in 
Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps.  I probably would never have 
allowed any German to raise doubts within me about the prevailing 
view on the Holocaust, because I would have suspected him of bias and 
self-interest, but a Communist, Partisan-fighter, former inmate? He 
[opened] my eyes and allowed doubts.

Not more, just doubts.  But that was enough to trigger a chain 
reaction, because I obviously had been raised in my German society to 
feel guilty if I doubt the truth [in] this regard. I actually did 
feel guilty for doubting, and that made [me] mad, because it 
contradicted everything I was taught:  question authorities, don't 
take paradigms at face value, criticism is noble, and all the other 
ideals of the enlightenment.

I realized that this society is hypocritical, and at once I knew - 
and a little research confirmed it - that any doubts and dissenter is 
relentlessly ostracized, persecuted, and even prosecuted with no 
chance of defense. So I said to myself: This is outrageous, 
unacceptable, against all norms and ideals of this society, and the 
fact that there is no other topic where dissent is more severely 
suppressed is evidence enough for me that it is also the most 
important topic.  He who is sure of being truthful is relaxed; only 
liars call for earthly judges.

The injustice of all this persecution becomes more and more 
predominant in my driving forces, also the conviction, if we don't 
stop the tyrants at the outset, they'll destroy more and more [of] 
our freedoms to scrutinize their skeletons in their closets. Next, 
it's just [amusing] with how little effort one can get entire 
governments to panic, an entire civilization to tremble, just because 
of a well-founded, fact-oriented, objectively written book.

"Give me a meaning [in] life!" I demanded in early years of my youth 
and adulthood.  I've found it.  When so many powerful people use so 
many criminal tools to stop a peaceful dissident, it must be because 
I've got something that can - anD will! - rock the world. I'll show 
them.

Now that they have destroyed my life, I'll have no other
way but to prove that I'm right, and the fact that more and more 
historians change sides - for now behind the scenes only, but that'll 
change - and that these powers that be get increasingly frantic is 
proof enough for me that it's working.

The postwar and the New World Order were erected on the Holocaust, 
and together with it, they'll come down. But that's not important, 
because it'll come down anyway, if only because they ruin the planet 
and drive world economics against the wall. For me it's simple: I am 
sure I'm right, and unless one [convinces] me with rational, 
scientific arguments that I am wrong, I am not going to give in.  If 
you like the comparison, I am kind of a human intellectual pit-bull 
terrier, and they made the mistake to provoke the blood out of me by 
persecuting me.

That's it. No negotiations any more. It"s me or them now.

My father didn't manage to break me with stick, whip, fists or by 
using me as a missile, and so they won't break my will with violence 
either. It only gets stronger with every beating.

That's my personality: a contrarian with enormous will power, 
stubbornness, if need be, when not reason is used to talk to me but 
brute force. Pressure causes counter pressure. In this way I am a 
simple physical principle. Here is my human right to doubt, research, 
scrutinize, disagree, dispute, refute, challenge, question. The only 
way to take this away from me is by killing me. Period.

And that is the strongest motivation: Anybody who punishes me for 
merely exercising my human right of being a human = a creature able 
to doubt and explore, will meet my utmost unbreakable resistance. I 
won't allow anybody to reduce me to a submissive slave. Nobody.

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