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in the United States on the repair, upgrading, and replacement
of said equipment. He has done work on gallows, electric
chairs, gas chambers, and in fact is the inventor and builder of
not only the automatic equipment used for lethal injection but
also determined the type and sequence of the four drugs used
to insure maximum comfort and a certain, painless death
when physicians refused to offer any assistance in this area.
At the second Zuendel trial in Canada, the judge recognized
his expertise, and ruled that he was an engineer by virtue of
experience and demonstrated ability, and therefore he would
be allowed to testify as an expert witness regarding gas
chambers. In some other areas, such as crematories, he was
not allowed to testify.
Rothe also won't tell you that, according to the
Boston Globe, Leuchter admitted to illegally collecting
20 pounds of building and soil samples in Poland, and
that Leuchter's "analysis'' has been thoroughly
rebutted in a report by French pharmacist
Jean-Claude Pressac. Pressac "noted that Leuchter
never looked at documents in the Auschwitz Museum,
and failed to study German blueprints of the gas
chambers."
The legality of the collection process has nothing to do with
the validity of the analyses of same. This is but another
example of the attempts to heap all possible negatives
because of the damage his investigations have done to the
accepted myths regarding non-existent gas chambers. His
sample analyses have, in fact, been independently verified by
the later work of both a Polish government commission,
Austrian engineer Walter Leuftl, and the inarguably qualified
German chemist, Germar Rudolf.
Shallit does not indicate if Pressac indicates what relevance
the "documents in the Auschwitz Museum" might have on the
matter. Given that much of what is on display at Auschwitz are
reproductions with obvious liberties taken to closer match
wartime accounts, a fact only admitted in the last few years,
one would have to be wary of whatever they purport to claim is
documentation. And the plain fact is that no "German
blueprints of the gas chambers" exist. What does exist are
blueprints of the various Krema (crematoria) which supporters
of gas chambers claim were "code worded" to hide the actual
use to which they would be put. These blueprints do exist, and
nothing on them supports the gas chamber theory--none of the
special provisions one would expect, such as sealing, gas
introduction equipment, forced air circulation of the closed
room(s) or adequate ventilation are indicated.
After a particularly traumatic cross-examination by the attorney
for Prof. Robert Faurisson, during which Pressac became
incoherent to the point of tears on the stand, he has retreated
from any active defense of his extremely flawed work, and it is
no longer cited by top-level historians. His alleged refutation of
challenges to the existence of gas chambers is a huge
embarrassment of a book now trotted out only by lay people
such as Mr. Shallit, and professional promoters of the gas
chamber myths.
With his false credentials, he convinced authorities in
several states in the U.S. to let him construct
execution machinery for their prisons.
Leuchter presented no false credentials. It is common for
self-trained individuals, particularly in fields for which no
academic accreditation exists, to advertise or present
themselves as Leuchter did--an "execution engineer." His
expertise in that field is amply demonstrated by work
experience. Shallit's comments are based on the events
following Leuchter's appearance in the Zuendel trial. A New
York based group called Holocaust Survivors and Friends in
Pursuit of Justice brought action in Massachussets based on
an obscure and never tested state law saying that people
working in areas involving public safety could not present
themselves as engineers unless they were licensed as such
by the state. Of amusing and revealing relevance is the fact
that the charge was brought and supported by a judge that
designing execution devices qualifies as working in an area
involving "public safety"!! Surely this is close to the height of
doublespeak. (See "The Execution Protocol" by Trombley,
Crown Publishing 1992)
But in 1990, according to the New York Times, his
misrepresentations began to unravel. The Attorney
General of Alabama questioned his expertise. Illinois
terminated his contract after determining that his
machine for injecting cyanide would cause prisoners
unnecessary pain.
The Alabama warden's actions were in response to Leuchter's
having testified against the Florida prison system when an
inmate brought suit against her electrocution sentence on the