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. |