Jewish Chronicle Article — 23 June 1989

Jewish Chronicle
23 June 1989

By BERNARD JOSEPHS

A storm of protest has blown up over the publication in London of a book claiming that mass gassings did not take place in Nazi death camps.

Mr Irving, who claims that Hitler knew nothing of the Holocaust, has written a

The Leuchter Report

,” in which he says: “The infamous gas chambers of

, Treblinka and Majdanek did not exist.”

He told the “Jewish Chronicle” on Wednesday that the author, Mr Fred Leuchter, who is said to be an engineer, had visited the sites of death camps and found no residue of poison gas.

“The Jewish community have to examine their consciences. They have been propagating something that isn’t true,” Mr Irving said.

More than 100 MPs have signed a

parliamentary motion

condemning the book and its “evil calumny.” Several Government Ministers have expressed disgust at the publication.