Herrmann, Hajo

After I had sent out my first research results in spring 1991 to this list, I was contacted by one person on that list, a friend of ret. Major General Otto Ernst Remer, a retired Wehrmacht officer. At that time, Remer was engaged in publishing political pamphlets, some of which made quite blunt revisionist statements, which had led to several criminal prosecutions against him. Because of this, his friend and the Diisseldorf lawyer Hajo Herrmann, a well-known former Luftwaffe fighter pilot who was now Remer s defense attorney, were looking for an expert to support Remer s revisionist claims. 

Earlier, Diplom-Chemist Rudolf had been assigned by my defense attorney, retired Colonel Hajo Herrmann, as expert witness to investigate testimony concerning alleged homicidal gassings at Auschwitz. Rudolf used modem scientific, precise measurement techniques to establish the presence of cyanic residue. 

The defense attorneys, Hajo Herrmann and Dr. Herbert Schaller, had prepared comprehensive evidence. They prepared their evidence to conform with a decision of the Upper District Court of Diisseldorf. In a gas chamber denial case, this court held that evidence must be admitted when it was superior to the proofs in the former National Socialist... 

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