Leuchter Report

Re. the technical proceedings cf. F. A. Leuchter, The Third Leuchter Report, Samisdat Publishers Ltd., Toronto 1989 (online ... 

Leuchter s report and subsequent testimony shook the foundations of Holocaust history, the story of the Nazi gas chambers . Considering the tens of thousands of copies of this Leuchter Report that have been distributed in all major languages all over the world and the many speeches Leuchter held, the impact of the work of this one man was enormous. 

The publication of the Leuchter Report at the end of the 1980s gave a significant boost to revisionism. From that time onward, there has been an unending stream of publications.43 The number of persons... 

A fact-oriented discussion of the technical arguments brought into the public by the Leuchter Report was started in France by an attempt... 

A little later, a contribution on the Leuchter Report appeared in an anthology on the Third Reich, authored by retired social worker Wemer Wegner, who had no qualifications in chemistry or civil engineering either.49 Instead of seeking the advice of qualified people on these matters, he drew his own conclusions—to his own massive embarrassment.50 One may question why Dr. Rainer Zitelmann, the responsible editor of this anthology, included this ridiculous piece in his otherwise well-researched compilation.51... 

At the end of 1991, chemist Dr. J. Bailer critiqued the Leuchter Report in a little booklet published in Austria.52 This work is notable... 

J.-C. Pressac, Jour J, December 12, 1988, pp. I-X. See also the related discussion in the undated translation, without references see also Pressac in S. Shapiro (Ed.), Truth Prevails Demolishing Holocaust Denial The End of the Leuchter Report, Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1990. 

On this cf. W. Schuster, Technische Unmoglichkeiten bei Pressac , DGG, 39(2) (1991), pp. 9-13 (online vho.org./D/DGG/Schuster39 2) also Paul Grubach, The Leuchter Report Vindicated A Response to Jean-Claude Pressac s Critique , JHR, 12(2) (1992), pp. 248ff. (online codoh.com/gcgv/gc426vl2.html)... 

At approximately the same time as Bailer s first publication, G. Wellers also published a study of the Leuchter Report. Wellers position was superficial, and is characterized by lack of technical and scientific knowledge.55... 

J. Markiewicz, W. Gubala, J. Labedz, Z Zagadnien Nauk Sadowych, Z XXX (1994) pp. 17-27 (online www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/polish/institute-for-forensic-research/post-leuchter.report). 

Most of the above-mentioned attempted refutations of the Leuchter Report, and subsequent discussion with other revisionists, are marred by personal insinuations about the motivations of persons making use of revisionist arguments, or by polemical excursions, neither of which contribute to the scientific discussion. 

J. Buszko (ed.), op. cit. (note 465), p. 118 6 to 12 kg Leon Poliakov, Harvest of Hate, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1971, p. 205 5-7 kg an analysis of the eyewitness statements has been undertaken by D. D. Desjardin Kenneth Stem s Critique of The Leuchter Report A Critical Analysis , online codoh.com/newrevoices/nddd/ndddstem.html. The analysis does not, however, take account of the slow release of hydrogen cyanide by the carrier material. See also Desjardin s interview with F. Piper, op. cit. (note 164), where Piper talks about 6 kg per 1,400 victims. 

In late summer 1989, I received an English copy of the so-called Leuchter Report, which I have just mentioned, and I read and translated it into German immediately, but the report did not convince me entirely, because it was inexact at points and contained sloppy errors, as I described extensively in a letter to the editor published in the small right-wing monthly newspaper Junge Freiheit in 1990. But the Leuchter Report had embedded the thorn of doubt in my heart. I must now explain what that meant, since therein lies the real reason for my involvement. 

After reading the Leuchter Report, I began to doubt whether the historically accepted view of the events of the Holocaust was correct. I nevertheless felt guilty, because in western societies we are imbued with our mother s milk that the history of the Holocaust is the purest truth, and those who doubt or deny this are evil or insane extremists, National Socialists, Jew-haters, ethnic persecutors, weak-minded, morons, idiots, fruitcakes, cranks, crooks, anti-Semites, and so forth. 

After reading these books I collected information on the so-called Zundel trial in order to find out what arguments had been made there. I had discovered in winter 1989/1990 that Zundel, who had commissioned the Leuchter Report, was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. This revelation had the equivalent effect of a kick in the stomach, because now I had to deal with the possibility that the Leuchter Report was not the independent report of an apolitical American technician, but merely the instrument of a German-Canadian Neo-Nazi. But such considerations could not remove the points made by Leuchter and therefore could not... 

Shelly Shapiro (Ed.), Truth Prevails Demolishing Holocaust Denial The End of the Leuchter Report, Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1990... 

D.D. Desjardin Kenneth Stern s Critique of The Leuchter Report A Critical Analysis (www.codoh.com/newrevoices/nddd/ndddstem.html)... 

I read it with great interest [...] My impression is, however, that this expert report is an important contribution to a very important question which, since the Leuchter Report, needs to be answered urgently. [...] One can only very much hope that the well-known tactics of hushing up is not applied to your expert report, but that critical responses and comments will be made. Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, Historian, January 28,1992... 

The Second Leuchter Report, op. cit. (note 123), can bee seen as a first attempt to accomplish such research. 

Thank you for your letter regarding the planned 283a. The Leuchter Report which you sent me is already known to me. I must say, however, that the personal recollections of so many witnesses who described the atrocities of Auschwitz impress me more than the expositions of the Leuchter Report I do, however, fully agree with you on the point that only science, not a trial judge, can determine what is truth and what is falsehood. ... 

The important victory won by revisionism in France on April 26,1983, would go on to confirm itself in 1985 with the first Ziindel trial in Toronto. I would like to dwell a moment on this trial in order to underscore the impact on one s point of view, and especially as far as the testimonies on the Auschwitz gas chambers are concerned for the first time since the war, Jewish witnesses were subjected to a regular cross-examination. Moreover, without wanting to minimize the importance of the second Ziindel trial (that of 1988), I should like it to be understood that the 1985 trial already contained the seeds for all that was attained in the 1988 trial, including the report by Leuchter and all the scientific reports which, in the aftermath, would proliferate in the wake of the Leuchter Report. 

The most detailed documentation on the eyewitness testimonies on the gassings in the western camps so far is the Second Leuchter Report,101 prepared under the leadership of Robert Faurisson. This booklet is an indispensable source of information for anyone interested in this matter. 

F. A. Leuchter, An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland, Samisdat Publishers, Toronto 1988,195 pp. (online www.zundelsite.org/english/leuchter/reportl/ leuchter.toc.html) German ed. Der erste Leuchter-Report, ibid, 1988 British ed. The Leuchter Report, Focal Point Publications, London 1989,67 pp. 

It is not surprising that this report caused considerable uproar, which resulted in a number of publications.7 29 On the suggestion of the Leuchter Report, the Rudolf Report - drawn up in spring 1992,19... 

Among the Revisionists it was particularly Fred A. Leuchter who, in his well-known Leuchter Report, turned his attention to the issue of the cremations. Relying primarily on the statements of... 

In his response to the Leuchter report, Jean-Claude Pressac provides a detailed and, in parts, a truly perceptive analysis of the gas chambers at Majdanek.33 That analysis represents an excellent starting point for the discussion below. The following discussion will, however, adopt the number-... 

In the years after its first publication, the so-called Leuchter Report about the alleged gas chambers of Auchwitz and Majdanek has been subject to massive, and partly justified, criticism. In 1993, Rudolf, a researcher from the prestigious German Max-Planck-Institute, published a thorough forensic study about the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz which irons out the deficiencies and discrepancies of the Leuchter Report. 

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