A personal appeal from Germar Rudolf

Germar Rudolf

Germar Rudolf

P.O. Box 257768
Chicago, IL 60625
USA

Phone: 1-708-6562779
Fax: 1-773-4075570
email: [email protected]

June 22, 2005

Dear Supporter:

AS you have generously invested time and resources, you deserve a report and update on my work as a revisionist writer and publisher. And you should be brought up to date on how my legal situation is affecting your investment.

You really are more than just an investor ... I consider you to be a key player in a worldwide movement that is literally changing the course of history.

Thanks, then, for investing and inspiring.

The last 11 months have been particularly challenging for me. In August 2004, German government authorities confiscated all of my property in that country. Since I had only a modest bank account, that was what they took -- some $8,000 which I intended to spend on an advertising campaign for revisionism.

Ironically, Berlin uses it to pay for their persecution of revisionists (they play rough). The result? I have lost some 20% of my German customers (which is about 15% of my gross revenues), because many Germans insist on paying into a German bank account directly. They will not do business if they have to use cash or credit cards (a very German attitude).

I'm working overtime to find creative ways to supplement this loss and circumvent my dedicated opponents -- with some initial success. More on that in a minute.

In November 2004 the Board of Appeal of the U.S. Immigration Services turned down my application for political asylum, claiming without substantiation and without prior accusation that my appeal was "frivolous" (meaning fraudulent). In February 2005 they denied my motion to allow me to apply for permanent residence although I am married to a U.S. citizen and have a child with her. Since both decisions violate the laws, I filed an appeal at a Federal Court. I managed to get the support of a civil rights organization for the second case (marriage). (See www.GermarRudolf.com for more information.)

The outcome of that appeal is open. If it fails, I will most likely end up joining Ernst Zündel in a German jail for many years. I don't want to stop my work and I'm fighting with every resource at my disposal to stay on the front lines of the revisionist movement.

Chances are good that my case will not fail, because if the unlawful decisions of the Immigration Services would be confirmed by a Federal Court, due process would be destroyed in the U.S. The legal process is not cheap. Last year alone, the legal bills amounted to $15,000, but I'm proud to report these were paid in full.

As good as my chances are to succeed on the legal front, I must be prepared for bad news. Planning on the worst case scenario to occur as soon as Fall or Winter 2005, I decided late last year to drastically change priorities of my business. Even though publishing revisionist periodicals is a vital service, it actually is not much of a money-making business. Because both my journals (The Revisionist and Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung) have such a low print run, costs cannot be covered by subscription rates. Book sales actually cover much of the journals' expenses.

Revisionist books are of scholarly value, and publishing new research is of lasting significance: future generations will testify that someone was publishing the truth about history -- even in the worst of times. Despite mounting legal expenses, I decided to focus most of my resources on getting numerous revisionist books published. In the meantime, the journals have fallen behind my usually strict production schedule.

On balance, however, good news: I will have 16 books (see below) published within less than a year. Of course, this intense effort has severely burdened me financially and it will get even worse once the bills from the printers come in. However, with some extra interest from my investors, book buyers, and subscribers, the journals will be back on track soon (we are producing a huge backlog of articles).

Frankly, I face a serious situation. I just received a bill from my lawyer with a new balance of some $31,000. I have also incurred about $20,000 in debts with the British printer of my German books. And, due to the delay in publishing the journals, most customers have not yet renewed their subscriptions, resulting in cash flow problems.

That's why I'm writing to you.

Now I have three choices: Either pay my lawyer and have a good chance to win my case, but suspend publishing ... or I publish the revisionist books in preparation and have to tell my lawyer to stop representing me, which is a safe ticket to a German jail.

My third option is obvious, but a step I take with great care. I simply must ask for help from the people who have invested in my work already -- through donations, subscriptions, and via the revisionist books they buy.

Will you please consider a generous gift to my legal defense fund?

I want to continue publishing the journals and books that are so important to the worldwide revisionist movement, but I can no longer be of service without your help!

Please be generous. Your gift of $1,000 or $500 or even $100 or $50 will go far in this fight. I have dedicated all of my time and resources to publishing revisionist works while battling to stay a free man -- and provide for my family as well. To be blunt, I just can't do it anymore without a vote of confidence from you.

I need your help -- as soon as possible -- to win my legal fight and to get the business on sound financial footing. I hope you will re-invest my work by supporting me in my fight to stay a free man.

If you chose to help, and I understand not everybody can, please make payments out for "Germar Rudolf." If you want to support me otherwise, please contact me directly at the address given on page one of this letter.

May I hear from you soon?

Gratefully,

Germar Rudolf
Castle Hill Publishers

 

Germar Rudolf

The Persecution of a German Scholar

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 authored, edited and published numerous academic articles, brochures, books, and magazines in the German and in the English language both in his native Germany and abroad. He is the owner of a university-press-style publishing house that focuses 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 want to imprison him exactly because of his scholarly success, for his ground-breaking academic writings. They intend to imprison him for at least five years, if not even ten years, and they have ordered to confiscate all of his property.

Rudolf's crime: he did and does 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 dictatorship. Period.

 

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 report 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 report. 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 http://vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndintro.html 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 http://www.germarrudolf.com/persecute/burn.html by order of the court. Rudolf subsequently fled to England, where he established a small publishing firm http://vho.org/ for similar scholarly material like that 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 publishing activities in the "Land of the Free," lauded by scholars from around the world, but hated by German authorities. Rudolf defies and undermines German censorship, considered among the harshest worldwide. Hence, more than 30 criminal http://www.germarrudolf.com/persecute/MoreCrimes.html investigations are 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 have 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) rejected http://www.germarrudolf.com/persecute/docs/RulingINS2003.pdf Rudolf's application for political asylum. They ordered him to be deported in handcuffs, banned for life, with no possible remedy. Not even his marriage to a U.S. citizen with a child expected are considered.

The reasoning given by the INS:

  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 ruling is outrageous, because :

  1. Just calling oneself a democracy doesn't make it one. Almost all dictatorships 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 censorship 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 Threatened

If the Federal Court reviewing Rudolf's case upholds this INS verdict, then due process for immigrants - perhaps even for U.S. citizens - will be a thing of the past:

  1. Defendants could be sentenced for crimes for which they were never accused and for which there is no evidence.
  2. Expert witnesses could be prosecuted because eyewitnesses feel insulted by their testimonies.
Special Treatment

Under normal circumstances, this outrageous INS decision would be overturned by any U.S. Federal Court. But this is a special case:

1. Germany, one of America's most important allies, demands that Rudolf be not recognized as a political refugee.

2. The topic that Rudolf's scholarly publications address is so emotionally charged that even judges can lose their objectivity and refuse to take due regard of the impact of their decisions.

The World's Leading Historical Dissident

The reason for all this? Germar Rudolf is the world's leading publisher of independent Holocaust studies not funded by any government. He publishes university-style research that critically re-examines and corrects generally held views of the Holocaust, while at the same time confirming the unjust suffering inflicted upon Jews during that human catastrophe.

But doubting aspects of the official version of the Holocaust, even if it confirms the injustice done to Jews, is a crime in Germany so severe that the German authorities not only jail http://germarrudolf.com/civil/ 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.

Germar Rudolf needs your help!!!

For five years now, the U.S. Government tries to deport Germar Rudolf to a German dungeon. Why? Because Germar Rudolf is the owner of the world's largest revisionist website www.vho.org and owner of the world's foremost revisionist publishing firm Castle Hill http://www.vho.org/store Publishers. Crushing legal costs of $30,000 have accumulated over the past 13 months. Please help Germar to cover these costs!

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Voices: "...now is the time to justify my reasoning and pony up. Germar Rudolf going down will have a devastating effect on 'Holocaust' revisionism in any organized sense. There are no plausible successors or replacements... Germar Rudolf has been on the lam for a decade, always financially insecure, and his productivity has been prodigious. Can you imagine what he could do if the threat of imprisonment were removed? I can't, because I am still shaking my head in wonderment trying to understand how he was able to do what he has already done." ---Prof. Dr. Arthur R. Butz, June 2005

"Any revisionist can only pay tribute to Germar's most efficient work as concerns, for example, putting out books and journals in both English and German. There Germar deploys an energy that I should call 'Germanic,' which says it all. We're glad of it. We applaud. But do we help him as much as we ought to? Perhaps not always. And perhaps not as much as we could... I urge you to show Germar Rudolf your support by sending him some money as soon as possible." ---Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson, May 2005

"I have known Germar Rudolf for almost ten years, and in that time I have learned to appreciate him as an individual who somehow manages to produce Revisionist work like no other individual that I know. It is rare to find a person who shows such qualities of endurance and productivity in the light of almost unbearable professional and personal hardships... Germar deserves to be relieved of the unnecessary financial burden... His fight is our fight... There is no alternative to having Germar Rudolf on the front lines. We must do all we can to keep him free." ---Dr. Fredrick Töben, Adelaide Institute, June 2005