Remer, Otto

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. 

In February 1991,1 attended a seminar in Bad Kissingen put on by a Slide-German youth organization—I was not a member but had been invited. Toward the end of the seminar, I got to know another participant of about my age. He suggested that before we departed we pay a visit to Wehrmacht Generalmajor Otto Ernst Remer, who lived in that town. 

Otto Ernst Remer, General-major, retired, Winkelser Str. 11E, 8730 Bad Kissingen, Tel 0971-63741, Fax 69634... 

Faithfully yours, Otto Ernst Remer 25th October 1992... 

When in spring 1992 Germar Rudolf sent out the first draft of his Expert Report on the Formation and Detectability of Cyanide Compounds in the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz to a narrow circle of recipients in science and politics, several historians responded with interest. The media, however, received no notice of the existence of the report. Only in spring 1993, when retired Major General Otto Ernst Remer took a later draft of the expert report, provided it with a peppery political preface, and then sent some 1,000 to 2,000 copies to the media, public attorneys, politicians, and scientists, did a certain circle of the Establishment learn of the existence of this report. 

Otto Ernst Remer (ed.), Die Zeit liigti, Verlag Remer Heipke, Bad Kissingen 1992... 

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