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The Fred Leuchter AR-Online current issue Index to Documents on Fred A Leuchter Introduction IN 1988 THE governors of several American penitentiaries suggested and recommended Mr Frederick Leuchter, an American who had practiced as an inventor and engineer for some years from (but not in) the state of Massachusetts, as an expert witness to defence attorneys acting for Canadian-German Ernst Zündel .
Leuchter was a professional consultant valued and employed by these prison officials for his professional advice on execution technology, including gas chambers. Hired by the Zündel team, in February 1988 Leuchter travelled to Auschwitz, Leuchter, Fred Leuchter, Leuchter Report, Poland, and assessed the likelihood that the building-remains there could indeed have functioned as homicidal gas chambers.
He also took forty samples of the fabric of those structures, for forensic and chemical analysis by reputable American laboratories. 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