Fred Leuchter on Auschwitz and Majdanek

On April 20 and 21, 1988, Leuchter took the stand as an expert witness in the courtroom in Toronto. He reported about his research and developed his conclusions. The atmosphere in the courtroom was tense. Leu-chter s testimony was straightforward and at the same time sensational According to Leuchter, there had never been any possibility of mass extermination of human beings by gassing in Auschwitz, nor in Birkenau, nor in Ma-jdanek 26 

Leuchter, An Engineering Report on the alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau andMajdanek, Poland, Samisdat Publishers Ltd., Toronto 1988, 195 pp. Ger. Der erste Leuchter Report, ibid., 1988 (online ihr.org/books/leuchter/leuchter.toc.html). 

Shortly before Leuchter, another witness was questioned Bill Armontrout, Warden of the Maximum Security Prison in Jefferson City, Missouri. It was Armontrout who, on request of defense attorney Barbara Kulaszka, pointed out that no one in the United States understood the operation of gas chambers better than Fred A. Leuchter. Armontrout himself confirmed in Court the great difficulties involved in killing people with poison gas, as Robert Faurisson had done before him. 

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