Until the late 1980’s, Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., was the foremost expert on the design, construction and maintenance of hardware, including homicidal gas chambers, used to execute convicted criminals in the United States. After receiving a Bachelor's degree (in history) from Boston University in 1964, Leuchter did postgraduate work at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He holds patents on the design of sextants, surveying instruments and optical encoding equipment. He is an accomplished pianist and an NRA-qualified small-arms instructor. Leuchter is perhaps best known as the author of four controversial forensic reports on alleged German wartime extermination gas chambers.
Leuchter designed and maintained gas chambers for several U.S. penal institutions. He was sent by Ernst Zündel to investigate Auschwitz, Majdanek, Dachau, Hartheim and other alleged “Nazi Death Camps” and “gassing facilities.” Author of the devastating, trail-blazing series of Leuchter Reports (I, II, III, IV) and several articles and videotaped presentations that resulted from these investigations. Sensational Zündel witness in the Great Holocaust Trial in 1988.
Leuchter was blacklisted in the U.S. and hounded by the Holocaust lobby and the world's lapdog media. He was arrested and jailed in Germany while visiting there to appear on a television show, and he was denied entry to the UK due to his forensic research.
As a result of intense Jewish pressure, Leuchter lost his livelihood. Since making known his findings, he also has been libelled, slandered, and financially ruined.
By Fred A. Leuchter ∙ December 1, 1992
Many of you, I am sure, know who I am, where I've been, and what I've done. Today I'm here to tell you what has happened to me since I addressed the Tenth International Revisionist Conference in Washington, DC, in October 1990. One of my jobs as an engineer of execution technology has been to…
By Fred A. Leuchter ∙ December 1, 1990
Boston is historically famous for an atmosphere conducive to free thinking. Boston is no less historically infamous for an atmosphere of social and political intolerance, the like of which is unrivalled in the annals of repressive thoughts. The witch hunt originates from the very bedbolts of Boston's fiber and, although perfected in Salem, one of…
By Fred A. Leuchter ∙ July 1, 1989
Introduction 1988 was a very informative and likewise disturbing year. I was appalled to learn that much of what I was taught in school about twentieth-century history and World War II was a myth, if not a lie. I was first amazed; then annoyed; then aware: the myth of the Holocaust was dead. Like all…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ October 1, 1988
Despite the May 11 conviction of Revisionist activist and publisher Ernst Zündel in Toronto for “knowingly and injuriously spreading a false report,” the second trial of Ernst Zündel was a Pyrrhic victory for Holocaust Exterrninationists. As in Zündel’s 1985 trial, Revisionist scholars and researchers presented a mass of new evidence against the Holocaust legend, evidence…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ October 10, 2008
Three main chemical investigations have been performed concerning residual cyanide in the walls of alleged ‘gas chambers’ at Auschwitz: by Leuchter, Rudolf and by Markiewicz. Over the two decades since Leuchter first sampled, debates have raged concerning where the samples were taken from, whether it was really ‘historic’ brickwork, how porous the brickwork was to…
By Fred A. Leuchter ∙ January 9, 2008
Arguably the most important of all Revisionist studies, The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its publication this year. Although most revisionists are familiar with the background of this trailblazing work, a brief review is called for. In 1988…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ January 9, 2008
Ask anyone in the UK who has heard of the Leuchter Report and you can be fairly sure they will tell you the same thing: it has been ‘discredited.’ But –“behold, O Dionysus,” as Nietzsche would have said, “I sing a new song”: there are two different references we need to fully unpack the meaning…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ July 1, 2007
It has been some ten years since my critical analysis of Kenneth Stern's Critique of the Leuchter Report. This article takes a new look at that report, providing additional information and analysis.[*] I identified ten of Mr. Leuchter's 32 samples as deriving from sheltered locations: samples 4-6 from Krema II and samples 25-31 from Krema…
By William Halvorsen ∙ March 1, 2000
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., an Errol Morris Film Against the baritone backdrop of Fred Leuchter's reminiscences, film maker Errol Morris takes a journey inside the mind of the brilliant engineer of execution systems in “Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.” The film is…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ January 1, 2000
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., a film by Errol Morris. With its premier at the Toronto Film Festival in 1999, presaged by a degree of consternation and controversy,[1] Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., is now circulating among various independent film houses. While the…
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