Resistance Is Obligatory: Why Freedom of Speech Matters

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In 2006, I was put on trial and convicted in Germany for my book “Lectures on the Holocaust” and for an earlier edition of the brochure “Holocaust Skepticism.” I was slated to spend at least five years in prison for them, but this defense speech changed the judges’ and prosecution’s mind, so they let me get away with “only” two and a half years. This edition is of 2016.

In 2005 Rudolf, a peaceful dissident and publisher of revisionist literature, was deported by the U.S. government to Germany. There he was put on trial for his historical writings. Rudolf was not permitted to defend his historical opinions, as German penal law prohibits this. Yet he defended himself anyway: Rudolf delivered a speech in the court room lasting seven days, during which he proved systematically that only the revisionists are scholarly in their attitude, whereas the Holocaust orthodoxy is merely pseudo-scientific. He then explained in detail why it is everyone’s obligation to resist, without violence, a government which throws peaceful dissident into dungeons. When Rudolf tried to publish his public defense speech as a book from his prison cell, the public prosecutor initiated a new criminal investigation against him. After his probation time ended in 2011, he dared publish this speech anyway…

2nd ed., 378 pages, b&w illustrations
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