this sounds like a nice book to get everyone for christmas
this sounds like a nice book to get everyone for christmas
Rudolf was a highly respected chemist with a promising career—a graduate of the Max Planck Institute—who made the “mistake” of telling the truth at a place (Germany) and time (during court) when lies are the only permissible public statements about the Holocaust. When informed he would be sent to prison for his factual testimony made during a law case involving the Holocaust, Rudolf went underground. He ended up in America, fell in love, and was wed to his U.S. citizen sweetheart.
However, in late 2005, Rudolf—now a peace activist and publisher—was kidnapped by the U.S. government and deported to Germany to face charges of “Holocaust denial.” There he was put on trial for his historical writings. During this trial, his defense lawyers were prohibited under the threat of prosecution from filing motions in support of Rudolf’s historical views. All motions filed by Rudolf’s defense team directed at proving that his writings are scientific in nature and are therefore protected by the German constitution were rejected by the court. Academics willing to confirm as expert witnesses the scholarly nature of Rudolf’s writings were barred from testifying.
Confronted with this kafkaesque situation, yet undaunted, Rudolf gave a brilliant speech in court that lasted seven sessions. In it, he elucidated what science is and how to recognize its exemplars. He proved that his writings undoubtedly qualified. He demonstrated moreover why the German laws designed to suppress peaceful dissidents are unconstitutional and in violation of human rights. Furthermore, he explained in detail why it is everyone’s obligation to resist in a non-violent way a state which throws peaceful dissidents into dungeons.
The court was hardly moved by Rudolf’s arguments. It sentenced him to 30 months imprisonment and ordered Rudolf’s magnum opus, the German edition of his Lectures on the Holocaust, to be confiscated and burned under police supervision. In addition, the public prosecutor initiated another criminal investigation against Rudolf, because he had tried to publish his defense speech from his prison cell.
After Rudolf had served his full prison term, he was released from prison in the summer of 2009 but also put under a three-year lasting “conduct supervision” by the German authorities. After this restriction was rescinded in the summer of 2011 due to his emigration to the U.S., his defense speech in support of liberty finally saw the light of day. The book also contains, among other things, a comprehensive documentation of the motions rejected by the court as well as two expert reports of historians who could not testify. Additionally, it is illustrated with a number of gorgeous drawings prepared by Rudolf during his time in prison (in this print edition reproduced in black & white).
Hardly two years later, however, the German censorship authorities banned the German edition of this book because it demands freedom of speech for historical dissidents… Read it all in this new edition of 2016.
UPDATE
As of the time of this addendum, 6/24/2023, the persecution of Germar Rudolf has not only continued but has been ratcheted up yet again, no doubt in an attempt to finally break the spirit of this courageous man once and for all.
In spite of the fact that the United States has always been a safe haven for people trying to escape oppression and injustice, it has long been in the habit of our government to, in circuitous fashion, aid and abet the Bolshevik-style tactics of other governments in the world to silence any and all oppositional viewpoints to the official Holocaust narrative. This has been observed many times over the years in regard to revisionists in general, but Germar in particular has seen this firsthand not just in the past instance alluded to earlier on, but in the despicable way the U.S. government has sought to find an excuse to revoke Germar’s visa status, even at the expense of ripping his family apart, due entirely to his publishing activities and streng verboten research. With his visa status up for expiration, Germar has repeatedly petitioned our government for its renewal and has been repeatedly refused. A few months ago, a U.S. judge issued a court order separating him from his family, and since the government is clearly hoping Germar will be forced to return to Germany, where the courts there now seek to put him on trial yet again for the Holocaust Handbooks series—this time for each book in the series—for which they want to give him what amounts to a life sentence to prison it is quite apparent that officialdom is of the opinion that a just punishment for Germar’s refusal to recant his writings is to rip his family apart and lock him up for the rest of his life. ...
>Rudolf was a highly respected chemist with a promising career—a graduate of the Max Planck Institute—who made the “mistake” of telling the truth at a place (Germany) and time (during court) when lies are the only permissible public statements about the Holocaust. When informed he would be sent to prison for his factual testimony made during a law case involving the Holocaust, Rudolf went underground. He ended up in America, fell in love, and was wed to his U.S. citizen sweetheart.
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However, in late 2005, Rudolf—now a peace activist and publisher—was kidnapped by the U.S. government and deported to Germany to face charges of “Holocaust denial.” There he was put on trial for his historical writings. During this trial, his defense lawyers were prohibited under the threat of prosecution from filing motions in support of Rudolf’s historical views. All motions filed by Rudolf’s defense team directed at proving that his writings are scientific in nature and are therefore protected by the German constitution were rejected by the court. Academics willing to confirm as expert witnesses the scholarly nature of Rudolf’s writings were barred from testifying.
>
Confronted with this kafkaesque situation, yet undaunted, Rudolf gave a brilliant speech in court that lasted seven sessions. In it, he elucidated what science is and how to recognize its exemplars. He proved that his writings undoubtedly qualified. He demonstrated moreover why the German laws designed to suppress peaceful dissidents are unconstitutional and in violation of human rights. Furthermore, he explained in detail why it is everyone’s obligation to resist in a non-violent way a state which throws peaceful dissidents into dungeons.
>
The court was hardly moved by Rudolf’s arguments. It sentenced him to 30 months imprisonment and ordered Rudolf’s magnum opus, the German edition of his Lectures on the Holocaust, to be confiscated and burned under police supervision. In addition, the public prosecutor initiated another criminal investigation against Rudolf, because he had tried to publish his defense speech from his prison cell.
>
After Rudolf had served his full prison term, he was released from prison in the summer of 2009 but also put under a three-year lasting “conduct supervision” by the German authorities. After this restriction was rescinded in the summer of 2011 due to his emigration to the U.S., his defense speech in support of liberty finally saw the light of day. The book also contains, among other things, a comprehensive documentation of the motions rejected by the court as well as two expert reports of historians who could not testify. Additionally, it is illustrated with a number of gorgeous drawings prepared by Rudolf during his time in prison (in this print edition reproduced in black & white).
>
Hardly two years later, however, the German censorship authorities banned the German edition of this book because it demands freedom of speech for historical dissidents… Read it all in this new edition of 2016.
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UPDATE
>
As of the time of this addendum, 6/24/2023, the persecution of Germar Rudolf has not only continued but has been ratcheted up yet again, no doubt in an attempt to finally break the spirit of this courageous man once and for all.
>
In spite of the fact that the United States has always been a safe haven for people trying to escape oppression and injustice, it has long been in the habit of our government to, in circuitous fashion, aid and abet the Bolshevik-style tactics of other governments in the world to silence any and all oppositional viewpoints to the official Holocaust narrative. This has been observed many times over the years in regard to revisionists in general, but Germar in particular has seen this firsthand not just in the past instance alluded to earlier on, but in the despicable way the U.S. government has sought to find an excuse to revoke Germar’s visa status, even at the expense of ripping his family apart, due entirely to his publishing activities and streng verboten research. With his visa status up for expiration, Germar has repeatedly petitioned our government for its renewal and has been repeatedly refused. A few months ago, a U.S. judge issued a court order separating him from his family, and since the government is clearly hoping Germar will be forced to return to Germany, where the courts there now seek to put him on trial yet again for the Holocaust Handbooks series—this time for each book in the series—for which they want to give him what amounts to a life sentence to prison it is quite apparent that officialdom is of the opinion that a just punishment for Germar’s refusal to recant his writings is to rip his family apart and lock him up for the rest of his life.
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