Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland

March 23, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:



Here is Revisionist Claim # 8:

"American execution expert, Fred Leuchter, delivered a scientific breakthrough in proving that the so-called gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have been used for their alleged purpose."

The Leuchter Report must be one of the most pirated documents on earth - translated into many languages and xeroxed/printed in the millions. The Leuchter tale is both heroic and tragic - but for all times, it will be history to shape the next millenium.

You mark my word - few documents on earth will so impact the future!

If ever there was a tailor-made plot for a movie, it must be the story of execution equipment expert, Fred Leuchter and how he went to Auschwitz on a secret mission in the midst of the Second Great Holocaust Trial of Ernst Zündel.

Fred Leuchter was a Holocaust believer who turned Holocaust skeptic as a result of having been asked to be an expert witness in the 1988 Holocaust Trial. Prior to his involvement in this trial, Leuchter was, from all we know, entirely apolitical. After his testimony, he became a target for some of the most vicious assaults ever launched against an American scientist and genuinely competent inventor of many useful patents.

The Leuchter story is worth studying by anybody who would like to understand what happens to science under a concentrated Holocaust Promotion Lobby assault.

Leuchter was viciously attacked for two reasons: 1) He did not have an engineering degree when he wrote his trail-blazing studies, and 2) he was paid by the Zündel Defense and, hence, considered beholden to the Revisionist point of view.

The proof is in the pudding.

Leuchter was a highly competent, well-paid and respected man in his field - until he was ruined financially and in his reputation by the vicious attacks of the Holocaust Promotion Lobby that saw its lucrative racket, netting billions of dollars for years, challenged and endangered by the Leuchter findings. Prior to his having his career and reputation ruined by the Holocaust Promotion Lobby, he was THE most sought-after specialist in execution type equipment in America, as per Warden Bill Armontrout, a court-approved expert witness, who recommended him. Warden Armontrout testified in the 1988 Zündel Trial that there was only ONE consultant in all of the United States that he knew of in the design, operation and maintenance of gas chambers, and that consultant was Fred Leuchter.

(Armontrout Testimony: As summarized in Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 351-353)

It is true that Leuchter did not have an appropriate engineering degree. Jesus Christ didn't have a degree in Christianity. Marx did not have a degree in Marxism. What Leuchter found can be, and has been, independently verified by specialists who have impeccable degrees.

It is NOT true, as has been so often alleged, that Leuchter was disqualified judicially. Leuchter was qualified by Judge Thomas as an expert witness during the Zündel trial. THE JURY WAS FORBIDDEN, HOWEVER, TO SEE OR LEARN OF HIS FINDINGS ! Any serious researcher could have verified that by checking the Zündel Trial 1988 transcripts pertaining to Leuchter's testimony.

(Leuchter Testimony as summarized in Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 354-362)

The second charge is that Leuchter was paid by the Zündel defense - and, hence, his finding are automatically labeled as "suspect."

Of course Fred Leuchter was paid by the Zündel defense. He was paid professional fees for a professional job. He was hired to go to Auschwitz in a highly dramatic, secret mission while Ernst Zündel was on trial in Toronto in 1988, fighting for his freedom and reputation. There was no time or money to scout around for someone else. He was not a "fly-by-night" specialist, however, as has been repeatedly claimed.

Furthermore, Leuchter stated at the outset to Ernst and his lawyer, before he ever went to Auschwitz, that he believed the Auschwitz gas chamber claim, and if he found it verified, then he would state so under oath and in his report.

Ernst still engaged and sent him, because he was sure of his facts, and he counted on Leuchter's professional integrity.

Leuchter went. He saw. He came back a much-enlightened man. Read what he had to say.

(Leuchter, Fred A. The Leuchter Report: The How and the Why. Journal of Historical Review 9, (1989): 133-139.)

So Leuchter was paid for his work. So what?

Who paid for the Pressac investigation and book? Who paid for the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation? Who paid for the study of the Zündel case condensed in a book called "Hate on Trial"? (No, not who you think! At least in part, the Canadian taxpayers did! )

Dr. Hilberg and Dr. Browning were both paid by the Government of Canada for their "expertise" to bolster the Holocaust Promotion Lobby claim. Browning alone got almost $25,000 for testifying against Ernst Zündel - courtesy of the Canadian tax payers.

Do these two facts, that Leuchter was paid, and that Leuchter did not have the necessary rubber stamps to do the work he did negate SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS THAT CAN BE DOUBLE-CHECKED AND VERIFIED?

When Leuchter was asked what stood in the way of someone being paid to malign his (Leuchter's) scientific findings, Leuchter stated simply:

"Anyone who would do that would risk his professional standing."

Will there be highly reputable professionals in the engineering field willing to come forward in the future and replicate what Leuchter found?

A few have, and it has cost them dearly. Revisionist reality is grim. Right now in Germany, Austria and a few other European countries, if a scientist verifies the Leuchter findings, that scientist loses his job, his reputation, his livelihood and maybe even his freedom.

A case in point: Walter Lueftl.

Walter Lueftl is an Austrian engineer. He was for years president of the Austrian Chamber of Engineers, the representative body of all Austrian engineers. He was a court-approved expert frequently called to testify in engineering matters.

Lüftl investigated Auschwitz and came to similar conclusions to Leuchter's.

The Austrians promptly charged him criminally for stating his best engineering viewpoint - that the Auschwitz "gassing" facilities were, in fact, fakes. As a consequence, he was forced to resign his position. The media had a feeding frenzy. After several years, the case was quietly dropped by the state.

Even worse fared young Germar Rudolf, a German scientist of the finest qualifications, with not a speck on his credentials and his record.

Rudolf wrote a magnificent report. (On-line at the Zundelsite!) He submitted it to more than 300 of his peers for scrutiny. Not one could find a fault.

Today Germar Rudolf lives in exile. His life and career are ruined, while Browning's fortune soared.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."

(Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895)



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