The world's leading Revisionist Germar Rudolf
has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment
by Dr. Fredrick Töben, March 15, 2007
Germar Rudolf sentenced
On 15 March 2007 the Mannheim District Court handed down a 30
months prison sentence to the world’s leading Revisionist and publisher – in
stark contrast to the sentence a Mannheim court a month earlier imposed on
veteran Revisionist Ernst Zündel who received the maximum of five years. Both
men have made it their life’s work to set the record straight about that vile
allegation levelled against Germans that during World War two they exterminated
six million European Jews in homicidal gas chambers. Zündel has been at it for
almost half a century and Rudolf since the late 1980s.
In today’s The Australian newspaper the feature article discusses the
Palestinian plight. In ‘Israel’s secret Gaza servants’, Martin Chulov speaks
with two of Hamas’ executioners who reveal to him “how they hunted down and
killed Palestinians … as a warning to other traitors”. The usual lures ensnared
individuals to become traitors to the Palestinian cause: sex and money. In their
battle for supremacy over the Palestinians, the Israelis have begun to target
individuals with such soft weapons – a far more effective attack on the
Palestinians than brute force, which the world, via the Internet, can observe
without hindrance.
So, what relevance has the above to Revisionists? It goes to the heart of
character and values! I am reminded what Ernst Zündel advised me years ago, that
if you are into historical Revisionism, then this is a war, and so it is
advisable not to have moral failings, such as sexual, drug or any material
addictions. Spending time in jail is to be expected and not to be feared, and a
fact that needs to be considered when embarking on this intellectual adventure,
as Robert Faurisson termed it. Interestingly, Art Butz’s The Hoax of the
Twentieth Century, first published in 1977 still remains definitive. Although
weathering all kinds of personal public attacks in the media Art Butz still
retains his professorship at a Chicago university – and no-one to date has
refuted his book’s basic premise: that the homicidal gas chambers never existed
and that Germans never had an official extermination policy.
Udo Walendy published his Historische Tatsachen until ordered by a court to
desist, and after spending some years in prison, which he did on account of his
age – he celebrated his 80th birthday this year. Siegfried Verbeke continued to
publish and disseminate Revisionist material and is currently locked up in a
Belgium prison, i.e. after last year spending some months at Heidelberg prison.
Günter Deckert spent close to five years in a German prison because he had
invited Fred Leuchter to address his Weinheim group on the 1988 published The
Leuchter Report. Deckert, it was alleged, smirked or sneered while translating,
thereby disparaging the memory of the dead! Then from prison he wrote a letter
to a Mr Mannheim, who was travelling around German schools talking about his
escapes from Auschwitz, etc. In his letter Deckert asked Mr Mannheim 12
questions, and Mr Mannheim felt hurt by the letter’s contents and took it to the
police. This writing of a letter and asking questions earned Deckert another
three months. I took up this matter and sent my views on the Deckert case to a
number of German judges and public prosecutors. It was the contents of this
letter that earned me a ten-month sentence in Mannheim in 1999, and the Adelaide
Institute website’s content was not taken into consideration. Justice Klaus Kern
accepted the push-pull argument, i.e. that material via the Internet is NOT
pushed into Germany, but rather that an individual must pull it down from the
Internet.
A subsequent appeal reversed this decision; thereby my case
became a precedent-setting case: German law extended around the globe – much
like the Israeli Holocaust law that enables the Zionist-racist state to demand
extradition to Israel of anyone and anywhere in the world who refuses to believe
in the ‘Holocaust’.
The December 2006 Teheran Holocaust Conference that aimed to review the
‘Holocaust’ has been the single most significant event within the last decade,
and it followed closely on Germar Rudolf in 2000 beginning his publishing of the
Holocaust Handbook series – about 21 published volumes and as many waiting to be
published – now waiting for Germar to return to the USA and continue his work
there. Anyone who believes in the ‘Holocaust’ now needs to wade through these
volumes to be informed of the Revisionist argument.
It was sadly noted that only Michael Collins Piper from the USA made it to the
Teheran Holocaust conference, Patrick McNally and Bradley Smith do not live in
the USA. American Revisionists such as Michael Hoffmann, Paul Grubach, Michael
Santomauro and Mark Weber, to name only a few, would not take the risk of
travelling to Teheran for fear of being pursued by their own internal security
forces for having travelled to a country that the US president labels ‘Axis of
Evil’.
So, what will Germar do once released from prison? Will he continue the
Revisionist enterprise and continue where he left off, and seek out Michael
Santomauro who has taken over the distribution of his books in the USA, or will
Germar continue to pursue his academic career and finally obtain that
much-deserved doctorate in science, which the University of Stuttgart withheld
from him on account of his having written that definitive Revisionist book: The
Rudolf Report?
The human factor and David Irving
Well, the human factor has already kicked in because there
are now some individuals within the Revisionist ranks who, for whatever reason,
claim they have worked out why there is this discrepancy between the Zündel and
Rudolf judgment.
Drawing on the early 20 December 2006 David Irving release, speculation is now
rife that Germar Rudolf did a deal with the German prosecutors.
According to Dr Schaller, David Irving did a deal with his Austrian defence
counsel in the hope of getting out of jail immediately after facing the judge, a
week after his 11 November 2006 arrest. Before appearing in front of the judge
and before being charged, Irving through his defence counsel, re-canted, i.e.
that limited gassings occurred and that Auschwitz had gas chambers. This prior
re-canting backfired and did not impress the judges who stooped so low during
sentencing that one of them described Irving as a prostitute who had not seen
the error of her ways. That such a statement came from a judge is shameful
because it scapegoats without going any deeper into the problem of prostitution.
I have noticed that men who have a special hatred for prostitutes are lacking a
moral dimension where compassion has a home.
After settling down to prison life, so according to Wolfgang Fröhlich who was
also spending his time in the Vienna jail, David Irving certainly saw the error
of his ways by jettisoning his young defence counsel and reverting to the wise
counsel of Dr Schaller for that appeal hearing on 20 December 2006.
Upon Irving’s release on 20 December 2007, something Dr Schaller predicted at
the Teheran conference, one of the judges stated that his early release was
justified because Irving had stated he now believes in the Holocaust.
Of course, once back home in England, Irving stated that he does not now have to
show any more remorse about what he has been doing for decades. For some
Revisionists such a jumping about with one’s beliefs is tantamount to selling
out…
Neither Ernst Zündel nor Germar Rudolf re-canted, and that is befitting of two
Germans whose lives are inextricably linked to the odious and oppressive
‘Holocaust’ story, while for British historian, David Irving, the ‘Holocaust ’
remains a symbol of British imperial decline. Since 12 March Irving is in
Budapest stirring up the nationalists with his knowledge. After all, Irving’
s knowledge as a military historian of World War Two remains unsurpassed and his
30-odd books can be ignored but cannot be dismissed as not having contributed
anything to world knowledge.
Interestingly, Georges Theil who also spent time in a French prison for
Revisionist work, feels passionately for the German cause and has states as much
in his book.
Back to Germar Rudolf’s case
Why was defence counsel Sylvia Stolz removed on the final day
of the hearing, and replaced by another lawyer from a Munich legal firm? Why was
there this sudden closing of the case that had been set down for a number more
days?
On 10 March 2007 I phoned Sylvia Stolz to find out what had happened because the
unofficial court report on that day wasn’t privy to what had occurred behind the
scene, and thus only offered speculations as to what had happened.
Sylvia Stolz informed me that:
1. Germar Rudolf had said everything he wanted to say and that is why he did not
make a final submission to the court and remained silent;
2. Rudolf did not recant in any way. Germar stands by the material he presented
to court.
3. Stolz’s removal as a defence counsel from the case was a tactical matter
because her task in any subsequent hearing was to contextualize the whole
proceedings within an historical framework. It would have drawn parallels with
Socrates’ demise by drinking a cup of poison and with Giordano Bruno’s burning
at the stake. This aspect of the Rudolf trial was dispensed with – and instead
the focus returned to Germar Rudolf, the scientist, the husband and father.
It is perhaps as a result of Sylvia Stolz from the very beginning of the
proceedings adopting the Horst Mahler strategy that this somewhat light sentence
came about. In the Zündel case there was no bargaining left at the very end,
only more of the same. It is to be noted that Horst Mahler for his troubles is
currently also resting in a prison for a total of nine months.
The fact that Germar has from his prison cell attempted to distance himself from
overt political Revisionist figures can be seen as his way of retaining that
pure scientific focus.
Yet, I am reminded of the Iranian maxim: everything is politics and everything
is religion. The Iranian vision of the world – Weltanschauung – is of course far
more all-embracing than our liberal western democratic fractured world where
things are divided up and compartmentalised – to the detriment of our holistic
appreciation of life itself.
Is it little wonder then that when Western men cry, women generally regard this
as a ‘macho’ failing instead of viewing it as a source of strength for
compassion and mercy. Islam has enabled men publicly to cry by adopting in its
religious ritual observances such a public display of compassion. In the liberal
democracies of the western world hat helps individuals to overcome the lack of a
wholesome spiritual vacuum is alcohol, psychiatry and consumerism held together
by the slave system of predatory capitalism.
Germar – the personal perspective
As Germar, 42, he has spent much reflective time on himself,
especially within the past 16 months. It is said that most men start to think
only in their early 30s – and I think there is some truth in this observation.
But whatever happens after Germar’s release from prison, I wish him well in his
endeavour to re-establish contact with his family from which he was so brutally
and unjustly ripped. Any talk about his person, and what he has done – or did
not do – for the Revisionist movement, is of secondary nature, though I hasten
to add that on numerous occasions he has exclaimed to me that his first love is
and always will be REVISIONISM. Whatever happens when he gets out of prison I
sense we have not heard the last of Germar Rudolf, the POWERHOUSE of REVISIONISM.
As some hostile ‘Holocaust’ believers advised Revisionists some time ago:
get a life beyond REVISIONISM. To that I responded: any thinking person is a
REVISIONIST.
So, let’s not diminish the REVISIONIST enterprise because I recall that someone
in Sacramento in 2004 stated REVISIONISM IS DEAD. This was quite an accurate
statement about that person’s own mental processes because when we stop being
revisionists, then we stop to think, and when we stop to think, then we may as
well terminate our life of our own free will. I don’t think the REVISIONISTS I
know would even contemplate adopting such nihilistic thought patterns. For that
we have too much work awaiting us, and so, quoting Germar, let’s get back to
work!
Fredrick Töben
Sydney
15 March 2007