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Süddeutsche Zeitung, no. 73, page 5
- NEWS -
Thursday, 29 March 1994
Work in defense of the former Nazi general Remer
"Auschwitz Expert Report" is undoing of Chemist
Stuttgart (dpa) - The radical right scene in the Federal Republic
has for some time repeatedly sought to deny the murder of millions
of people in Nazi concentration camps.
The methods they have used to prop up the "Auschwitz Lie" have now
been revealed in a Stuttgart Labor Court trial between
Diplom Chemist Germar Rudolf,
who was active as "expert witness" in a radical right-wing trial,
and the Max Planck Corporation,
who have terminated him without notice.
Rudolf is the author of an
"Expert Report on the Formation and Detectability of Cyanide Compounds in the 'Gas Chambers' of Auschwitz".
He wrote this on commission of and at the expense of the defense attorney
of the former Nazi general Otto Ernst Remer,
who has in the meantime flown and is being sought by Interpol.
The General-major was a key player in putting down the putsch against
Hitler on 20 July 1944.
In the Federal Republic he has continually asserted that there was
no mass murder of Jews in National Socialist concentration camps.
In 1992 in the Land Court of Schweinfurt he was convicted of racial persecution
and incitement to race hatred and sentenced to a prison term of one year and ten months.
The termination trial of his "expert witness" ended with a compromise,
as confirmed by the presiding judge of the 14th Chamber of the Labor Court of Stuttgart:
By mutual agreement,
the work contract was severed retroactively to the time of the termination without notice.
As a doctoral student Rudolf had a work contract for a limited period with
the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Without the knowledge of his superiors he used Institute stationary
to commission the Institute Fresenius in Taunusstein in Hesse
to analyze samples of building materials for Prussic acid (cyanide) compounds.
He did not tell the Institute Fresenius where the samples came from.
In his "expert report" for Remer Rudolf claimed that the samples came from
Auschwitz and that the Institute Fresenius had not found any traces of
cyanide in samples from the gas chamber masonry.
According to its spokesman, the Max Planck Corporation has no proof
that the samples really come from Auschwitz.
Even if they are from there, according to expert opinion,
it is certainly no wonder that no traces of Prussic acid were found,
because cyanide compounds disintegrate quickly.
In earth this takes six to eight weeks and in stone the compounds
can only be preserved by 'absolute conservation conditions,
including complete exclusion of air and bacteria'.
This did not stop Remer from sending Rudolf's "expert report"
to politicians, natural scientists, journalists and historians
and to add in a commentary that Rudolf was a "scientist at the
Max Planck Institute".
At that, protests rained from the Max Planck Corporation.
At the Labor Court trial the Corporation claimed not only that
its stationary had been used illegally, but also that there was "damage to reputation".
During the trial the presiding judge made it clear
that in her view the termination without notice was justifiable.
The compromise was arrived at on Rudolf's initiative.
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