A formal court hearing is now all but inevitable, which will force a public airing of the holocaust issue, and of the. If anyone is interested more information can be found at racial observer books under the revision tab. The leuchter report is a pseudoscientific document authored by american execution technician fred a. Publishers comments foreword by robert faurisson purpose background scope synopsis and findings methodology use of hcn and zyklon b as fumigant design. As one young german recently noted, if olocaust revisionism wins widespread acceptance there, the impact will be felt not merely in the intellectual world. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming zundels position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Leuchter translation english german dictionary reverso. Growing impact of the leuchter report in germany codoh.
Frank took a west german publisher to court in 1975. Upon reading the leuchter report, david irving, the famous british historian, said on april 22nd, 1988 during his testimony in toronto that it was a shattering document which would become essential for any future historian writing on the second world war. The purpose of the investigation and subsequent report does not include a determination of any numbers of persons who died or were killed by means other than gassing or as to whether an actual holocaust occurred. Be sure to read other important holocaust handbooks that help expose the racist antigentile hoax called the jewish holocaust or shoah. Testimony in the ernst zundel trial the leuchter report. A brief history of the alleged german execution gas chambers. I belong to the blue eyed an blond people in the north of europe that was planned to take over the world as the perfect aryan race, descendants of vikings, and with family roots to the town that was planned to be the new german capital, drontheim, if berlin fell into the hands of crazy stalin. He was born in january 1929 in shepperton, england. November 9, 2012 in february 1988, fred leuchter jr. Leuchter, who was commissioned by ernst zundel to defend him at his trial in canada for distributing holocaust denial material.
Each report is supplemented and subjected to critical examination by expatriot german. Leuchter changed the course of history when he concluded in his report that the locations investigated could not have. Nowhere has the impact of the 1988 leuchter report been greater than in germany, and understandably so. The truth about the leuchter report part one malcolm.
Part 21 the leuchter findings the greatest story never told. The result of this journey was the leuchter report. Much less wellknown is that three later leuchter reports were also published and that the leuchter reports did not discuss just zyklon b derivatives, but also many other aspects of the camps and which were argued to. At the trial, leuchter was called upon to defend the report in the capacity of an expert. A brief history of critiques of the leuchter report, p. A 1991 critique of the leuchter report, and a phoney ss crematorium document exposed in german. Documentary about fred leuchter, an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by revisionist historian ernst zundel to prove that there were no gas chambers at auschwitz. This book includes all three of the technical reports of fred leuchter, a specialist in. Links to this dictionary or to single translations are. Introduction to the leuchter report click for german translationclick for french translationunlike the writing of history chemistry is an exact science. Leuchter claims that only 278 people could fit in one gas chamber. Full text of the leuchter report see other formats the leuchter the end of a myth a report on the alleged execution gas chambers at auschwitz, birkenau and majdanek, poland by an execution equipment expert table of contents.
Letter from fred leuchter to alpha analytical laboratory, dated march 9, 1998. Fred leuchter is busy revamping the chair so that it can be put back into use in the months ahead. The leuchter report 14 english and german stormfront. Growing impact of the leuchter report in germany, by ihr. The leuchter report on the dachau gas chamber is printed here in order to show photos which illustrate and explain the terms used. Leuchter report, had converted to holocaust denial to be. The leuchter reports have been distributed all over the world as well as translated into many other languages including german. The leuchter report is a pseudoscientific document authored by american execution technician. The court, therefore, refused to enter the leuchter report as evidence and did. By fred leuchter, robert faurisson and germar rudolf. He came back and presented the so called leuchterreport before the court, which came to the conclusion that the alleged gas chambers in auschwitz were not and could not have been used for mass killing purposes.
In the following years, others would confirm the accuracy of his seminal, leuchter report. This report contains the definitive data for gas chamber application. Polish and german, on auschwitz and the surrounding areas which. Because fred leuchter had only two weeks to prepare his expert report focusing on the. The leuchter report contains a range of other mendacious assertions and speculation intended to call into question the fact that the gas chambers were used to kill people, and the crematoria to burn corpses on a mass scale. Front page of ingrid rimland zundels zundelsite, telling the story about her husband ernst zundel the artist, the painter, the former publisher, the pasifist, the revisionist, the political prisioner and the martyr for truth in history, and telling the story about other victims of the enemy of freedom of speech and truth in. Contains translations by tu chemnitz and mr honeys business dictionary germanenglish. After reading the leuchter report lord donaldson, britains most senior high court judge, writes to david irving in jun 1990 i think there is a case, for historys sake, for a full inquiry into auschwitz. Leuchter, born in 1942, is an engineer living in boston, massachusetts, who specialized in the design of execution hardware used. All of his reports are online and also available via mail order. The leuchter report illustrated with photographs taken.
During the zundel trial, leuchter said he based 90% of his conclusions against the existence of the gas chambers, on engineering and design considerations, and only 10% on the forensic evidence 4. Leuchter, the american expert for execution technologies, investigated the facilities in the auschwitz, birkenau, and majdanek camps claimed to have served as chemical slaughterhouses for hundreds of thousands of victims also called gas chambers. Links to this dictionary or to single translations are very welcome. Old fashioned historians have always conducted endless learned debates about meanings and interpretations, and the more indolent among them have developed a subsidiary black art of dreading between the. Most of the footage is of leuchter, puttering around execution. The decision to arrest leuchter is an apparent expression of panic on the part of the german authorities, and will likely prove to be a major mistake for them.
Foreword to the original first report by robert faurisson. If leuchter had gone to the archives, if he had spent time in the archives, he wouldve found evidence about ventilation systems, evidence about ways to introduce zyklon b into these buildings, evidence of gas chambers, undressing rooms. Leuchter compiled the report in 1988 with the intention of investigating the feasibility of mass homicidal gassings at nazi extermination camps, specifically at. Yet for 44 years not a single forensic investigation into this alleged crime has ever been undertaken. The leuchter report is one of those rare and most precious documents. The report was published after the trial as the leuchter report. Interestingly, though, the reason was not the report itself, but rather the somewhat provocative commentary that.
The arguments in the leuchter report can be divided into two categories, engineering and forensic. Back in america and warned not to return to germany. Some years after the war, british military intelligence sergeant bernard clarke described. David irving, the distinguished british historian, has called the leuchter report a. I have copies of all 4 leuchter report booklets in english. Contains translations by tu chemnitz and mr honeys business dictionary german english. An engineering report on the alleged execution gas chambers at auschwitz, birkenau, and majdanek, poland, p. Fred leuchter, who does not have a degree in engineering, has been discredited as a gas chamber expert and he no longer works as a gas chamber consultant.
Without ernst zundel, almost nothing of what has now transpired would have been conceivable. And didnt understand the many factors that affected the results. For the expedition into west germany and austria, i was part of the leuchter team in the report that you are about to read, fred leuchter gives us all the important information about the members of that team and about the nature and result of his mission. The leuchter report contains a range of other mendacious assertions and. Editors introduction nowhere has the impact of the 1988 leuchter report been greater than in germany, and understandably so. In 1988, ernst zundel, a germancanadian holocaust denier, was put on trial in. Leuchter, a consultant in the united states for the design, construction and maintenance of execution gas chambers, the report sets out the methodology and findings of the first forensic investigation. As one young german recently noted, if holocaust revisionism wins widespread acceptance there, the impact will be felt not merely in the intellectual world. This is a scan of the german translation of the leuchterreport, which was published by ernst zuendel in 1988. Fred leuchter arrested in germany, by ihr staff the unz. This book includes all three of the technical reports of fred leuchter, a specialist in the design and operation of execution gas chambers in the us, on the alleged existence and use of purposebuilt massexecution gas chambers in the concentration camps of auschwitz, birkenau and majdanek during wwii. The german chemist germar rudolf, who worked at the max plank institute for solid state physics, is now in jail, because he likewise measured the high levels of the cyanide in the walls of the delousing chambers. Dr leuchter was not qualified for the undertaking and thus.
The first report on auschwitz and majdanek became world famous. Prior to this, he had been contracted by the authorities of several states in the u. The leuchter report by germar rudolf holocaust, new books. When the first germanlanguage edition of the leuchter reportwas published in late 1988 by udo walendy as no. The basic german document on crematorium throughput, prepared by the. In 1982 he received a state doctorate in letters and the humanities from the sorbonne, were he also taught from 1969 to 1974. The leuchter report is a revolutionary forensic work debunking the jewish holocaust because it exposes allied psyop wartime propaganda.
Pronunciation of leuchter with 3 audio pronunciations, 6 synonyms, 15 translations, 3 sentences and more for leuchter. Letter from bill armontrout, warden of missouri state penitentiary. The gas was used to kill people in the gas chambers for half an hour a day, while the. Englishgerman online dictionary developed to help you share your knowledge with others. The english version of this improved leuchter report, my own expert report called the rudolf report, was first published in german in 19932 and in english ten years later. Leuchter, a consultant in the united states for the design, construction and maintenance of execution gas chambers, the report sets out the methodology and findings of the first forensic investigation of the actual sites in. Leuchter report holocaust denial history auschwitzbirkenau.
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