Germar Rudolf
The Persecution of a German Scholar
http://www.germarrudolf.com/
Imagine an expert in DNA analyses. He is asked to verify if a defendant
is the father of a child. He complies and confirms the fatherhood of the
defendant. With his testimony, however, the expert contradicts the
statements of many witnesses who claim the opposite. Imagine the judge
ruling not to admit the expert testimony because it makes spectators
assume that the witnesses lied out of sinister motives. The judge even
puts the expert witness on trial for inciting hatred against the
witnesses and sentences him to 14 months in jail. You think it can’t
happen? It does happen in Germany...
German scholar Germar Rudolf has authored, edited and published numerous
academic articles, brochures, books, and magazines in the German and in
the English languages both in his native Germany and abroad. Until his
abrupt de****tation from the United States in Nov. 2005, he was the owner
of a university-press-style publi****ng house that focused on detailed
scientific and archival studies of well-defined historical topics. He is
lauded as an academic of high standards by many professors from around
the world. Yet the German authorities imprisoned him exactly because of
his scholarly success, for his ground-breaking academic writings.
Rudolf’s crime: he did not obey a German penal law that forces everybody
to parrot the official version of a detail of German history. You may
wonder what detail that may be, but to be sure, it does not matter,
because a government that prescribes the writing of history by penal law
is dictating to its citizens what to think, and that is the exact
definition of a dictator****p. Period.
To summarize Germar’s deeds:
An Academic "Thought Criminal"
Germar Rudolf (pictured) was asked by various defense teams to testify as
an expert in chemistry at trials in Germany. Yet the judges refused to
hear his testimony in open violation of German law, which does not allow
the rejection of expert witnesses already present in the court room.
Rudolf’s rejected expert re****t was then published by a defendant who
had
requested it for his defense. This defendant considered it vital to draw
attention to this illegal suppression of evidence, which he sought to do
by adding a perfectly legitimate, though polemical, introduction and
appendix to Rudolf’s re****t. Thanks to this publication, Rudolf was
sentenced to 14 months in prison. The court argued that Rudolf’s
findings
in combination with the defendant’s comments could arouse hostile
emotions against witnesses, whose testimonies conflicted with Rudolf’s
findings.
A year later, Rudolf published a large scientific book about similar
issues, for which he was also indicted. Although historians testified
during this trial that Rudolf’s work is scientific and thus protected by
Germany’s constitution, the book was nevertheless confiscated and burned
by order of the court. Rudolf subsequently fled to England, where he
established a small publi****ng firm for scholarly material similar to
what he was prosecuted for in Germany. As a result, Germany requested his
extradition. Therefore, Rudolf fled to America and applied for political
asylum.
Rudolf continued his scholarly publi****ng activities in the "Land of the
Free," lauded by scholars from around the world, but hated by German
authorities. Rudolf defied and undermined German censor****p, considered
among the harshest worldwide. Hence, more than 30 criminal investigations
were pending against him in Germany for his peaceful "thought crimes,"
each of them perfectly legal in the U.S., but punishable with up to five
years in jail in Germany. German authorities also ordered the
confiscation of his property, because they claim it was all acquired with
money gained from "illegal" activities.
The U.S.A. – Still a Safe Haven for the Persecuted?
In 2004, the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Services (INS – now part
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE) rejected Rudolf’s
application for political asylum. They ordered him to be de****ted in
handcuffs, banned for life, with no possible remedy. Not even his
marriage to a U.S. citizen with a child expected was considered.
The reasoning given by the INS-ICE:
1. Germany is a democracy, a state under the rule of law. Hence,
Rudolf is not fleeing persecution, but lawful prosecution.
2. Considering Germany’s Nazi past, it has to censor its citizens in
order to make sure that Nazism will never rise again.
3. Rejecting evidence is OK, because the U.S. also has rules for
rejecting evidence. E.g., if an expert has already proved a point at
issue, witnesses who contradict this expert can be rejected.
4. Rudolf’s application was found to be "frivolous" (deceitful), the
most severe immigration violation, resulting in the harshest punishment
possible.
This INS-ICE ruling is outrageous, because:
1. Just calling oneself a democracy doesn’t make it one. Almost all
dictator****ps call themselves "democracies" and "states under the rule of
law." The proof lies in Germany’s civil rights record, not in its law
books.
2. Justifying German censor****p is like saying: Because Germany
persecuted minorities, jailed dissenters, and burned books in the past,
it now has an obligation to persecute minorities, jail dissenters, and
burn books!
3. The INS has it upside down: Germany not only rejects, it jails
experts because their research results disagree with witnesses.
4. Rudolf learned about the accusation of having filed a "frivolous"
application only in the verdict, which named no evidence for it. It is as
if someone were tried for theft, then sentenced for murder without proof!
Due Process Aborted
Apart from his dealings with INS-ICE, Rudolf pursued legal processes in
the U.S. federal courts that, by contrast, proceeded and continue to
proceed generally favorably. In October 2005 ICE intervened in this
process and after a brief incarceration de****ted Rudolf in chains to
Germany, where he was immediately confined in a maximum security prison
near Stuttgart. In late 2006 – early 2007 he was put on trial in
Mannheim
and received a prison sentence of two and one-half years, to commence
after serving the earlier 14 month sentence.
A favorable court ruling in March 2006 confirmed Rudolf’s right to
return
to the U.S.A. to apply for residency based on his marriage to a U.S.
citizen. This ruling has been resisted by ICE, which argues that a new
regulation formulated by them can be applied retroactively to Germar.
That claim was challenged in court by Germar in Sept. 2007 but has not,
as of 18 Dec. 2007, been decided by the court. Legal arguments aside, the
bottom line is that ICE is doing everything possible to deny Germar U.S.
residency. The authority of this purely administrative agency is great in
this area, as the subjects involved do not have the rights of legal
residents. However the courts still have the last word, provided the
applicant can sustain the long legal process required.
The World’s Leading Historical Dissident
The reason for all this? Germar Rudolf was the world’s leading publisher
of independent Holocaust studies not funded by any government. He
published university-style research that critically re-examined and
corrected generally held views of the Holocaust, while at the same time
confirming the unjust suffering inflicted upon Jews during that human
catastrophe.
Germar’s publi****ng operations have, since his de****tation from the
U.S.,
passed to other, unrelated people.
But doubting aspects of the official version of the Holocaust, even if it
confirms the injustice done to Jews, offends powerful people in the U.S.
In Germany, it is a crime so severe that the German authorities not only
jail dissenters, burn their books, and block their Internet sites, but
also outlaw motions to introduce dissenting evidence in trials and
prosecute defense lawyers who dare to do so anyway.
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