This issue of Inconvenient History contains several papers by John Wear addressing a wide variety of topics concerning World War II, meaning the war itself, the one that never seems to stop. Only the last two papers concern minorities persecuted by Third-Reich authorities: one paper by John Wear on the incarceration of clergymen in German concentration camps, while the other is an excerpt of the just-released Volume 36 of Castle Hill’s prestigious series Holocaust Handbooks: Jürgen Graf’s critical overview of the 30 most-prominent witnesses on alleged extermination events at the Auschwitz Camp.
The worrying trend toward an ever-shrinking pool of contributors to Inconvenient History unfortunately continues. It is a challenging task to maintain a broader range of contributing authors for such a controversial periodical that the powers that be want to see extinguished rather earlier than later. It requires the full attention of its lead editor. I must admit that neither my difficult domestic situation nor the workload I have with Castle Hill allow me to fill that role at the moment. Therefore, we are looking for skilled and dedicated helpers who could assist with this enterprise. If you think you can chip in, please feel free to get in touch.
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Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz, The Rudolf Report (now titled The Chemistry of Auschwitz). He conclude in it that "the alleged facilities for mass extermination at Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suited for the purpose as claimed." As a result he had to endure severe measures of persecution in subsequent years. Hence he went into British exile, where he started the small revisionist outlet Castle Hill Publishers. When Germany asked Britain to extradite Rudolf in 1999, he fled to the U.S. There he applied for political asylum, expanded his publishing activities, and in 2004 married a U.S. citizen. In 2005, the U.S. recognized Rudolf's marriage as valid and seconds later arrested and subsequently deported him back to Germany, where he was put in prison for 44 months for his scholarly writings. Some of the writings he got punished for had been published while Rudolf resided in the U.S., where his activities were and are perfectly legal. Since not a criminal under U.S. law, he managed to immigrate permanently to the U.S. in 2011, where he rejoined his U.S. citizen wife and daughter. He currently resides in Upstate New York.
Read more about him here.
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