Revisionist Germar Rudolf sentenced to 30 months prison

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 hasdone - or did not do -
for the Revisionist movement, is of secondarynature,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 happenswhen 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