The International Campaign for Real History
| Fred Leuchter |
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Introduction
IN 1988 THE governors of several American penitentiaries suggested and recommended Mr Frederick Leuchter, an American who had practiced as an inventor and engineer for some years from (but not in) the state of Massachusetts, as an expert witness to defence attorneys acting for Canadian-German Ernst Zündel.
Leuchter was a professional consultant valued and employed by these prison officials for his professional advice on execution technology, including gas chambers.
Hired by the Zündel team, in February 1988 Leuchter travelled to Auschwitz, Leuchter, Fred Leuchter, Leuchter Report, Poland, and assessed the likelihood that the building-remains there could indeed have functioned as homicidal gas chambers. He also took forty samples of the fabric of those structures, for forensic and chemical analysis by reputable American laboratories. |
| These laboratories found no significant residues of hydrogen-cyanide compounds except in one structure, which was commonly agreed to have been the building in which the slave labourers’ clothing was fumigated with Zyklon B gas. Here there were massive quantities of the poison residue still impregnating the brickwork.
 The Leuchter affidavit setting out these findings was introduced to the Toronto court which was hearing the criminal charges against Zundel. For legal reasons, the court refused to allow it to be introduced as an exhibit.
It was later published unamended as The Leuchter Report, and achieved world-wide cult-status.
Although completely a-political, Leuchter in consequence became the object of global insults (as a “neo-Nazi”) and harrassment. Visiting England in November 1991 at the invitation of David Irving’s Clarendon Club, to lecture at Chelsea Town Hall in London, he was arrested on-stage by Metropolitan Police officers at the request of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, held in the cells, and deported without appeal back to the United States.
In Massachusetts, he was victimised, assaulted, and prosecuted at the instance of local Jewish bodies on the hardly relevant pretext that he had been practicing as an engineer without proper registration (as did over half of that state’s engineers). Fred Leuchter was forced out of work, hounded out of his home, and obliged to change his identity and residence. |
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Index
- David Irving’s Introduction to The Leuchter Report (Focal Point Publications, London 1989) [ English text | German | French ]
- Prison governor Armontrout’s testimony
- Leftwing Members of Parliament smear the Report, Jun 20, 1989 [German text]
- David Irving’s letter to their ringleader Hugh Dykes, Jun 30, 1989 [German text]
- Jewish Chronicle, London, Jun 23, 1989: “Storm over ‘evil’ book” [The Leuchter Report]
- Jewish Chronicle, London, Jun 30, 1989: “Irving publisher’s won’t drop him”
- After reading The Leuchter Report Lord Donaldson, Britain’s most senior High Court judge, writes to David Irving in Jun 1990 “I think there is a case, for history’s sake, for a full inquiry” into Auschwitz
- A 1991 critique of the Leuchter Report, and a phoney SS “crematorium” document exposed [in German].
- David Irving letter to The Times, Mar 21, 1991, reporting that secret Polish official tests on the Auschwitz site confirm Leuchter’s findings
- After Leuchter’s arrest in Oct 1993, German government’s propaganda sheet The Week in Germany gloats: ‘Germans Want to Try Leuchter – If He Would Only Let Them’
 Fred Leuchter: the Movie (“Mr Death”):
- Early stories, Boston Herald, etc., Jan 1999
- Acclaim for Leuchter film at Sundance Film Festival, Jan 27, 1999
- Mark Singer’s review article Feb 1, 1999 in The New Yorker
- George Jonas comments in review that Stalin and Mao killed tens of millions
- Canada’s Lions Gate Entertainment picks up North American rights to the documentary “Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.”
- NY Daily News, Dec 29, 1999: Irony is good for the blood
- New York Post, Dec 29, 1999: Mr. Death Sums Up Moral History of Century
- Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Dec 24, 1999: on Errol Morris and Mr. Death
- More news about the new movie by Errol Morris “Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.”
- Erroll Morris admits he had to alter this film on life of Fred Leuchter, after Jewish complaints
- New York Times Reviews the film Dec 26, 1999
- Forensic Chemist Roth comments he would have made different findings if he knew source of fragments was Auschwitz
- Wall Street Journal’s critic, reviewing film on Dec 31, 1999, pours scorn on life of Fred Leuchter
- Michael Hoffmann: Mr. Death: A Revisionist Opportunity
Fred Leuchter’s website with clips from the Movie (“Mr Death”):
http://www.fredleuchter.com/mr_death/index.html |
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