Tuesday, June 21, 2011

A note about the Leuchter report

Was Auschwitz a death camp specifically used for the extermination of Jews? Or is there a whole cooked-up story hiding behind a mask?
Did Auschwitz inmates enjoy music shows? And did they have swimming pools? As the pictures below show? Makes us think, at the least.

Posters for music shows at Auschwitz

Swimming pool at Auschwitz
The basic questions that need to be addressed are:
1. How many died in the Holocaust? Six million? One million? 5.09 million? A few thousand? None?
2. Was any ‘gassing’ involved in the killings?
3. Did or did not Nazi Germany have a systematic plan in place to ‘kill all the Jews’?

Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., as the chief engineer of Fred Leuchter Associates of Malden, Massachusetts, had accumulated a vast amount of experience in the design of gas chambers for the execution of criminals. Ernst Zundel paid Leuchter and his team $35,000 for what has since become famous as the “Leuchter Report”. This team scraped the walls, ceilings and floors of the alleged ‘gas chambers’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau and had the samples analyzed for cyanide content by Alpha Labs of Ashland, Massachusetts. The control sample was taken from the delousing or fumigation chamber in Birkenau, where all scholars admit that Zyklon B was used for delousing. The report stated that significant amounts of cyanide were present in the sample taken from the delousing chamber, but only trace amounts were present in the samples taken from the so-called ‘gas chambers’. This shows that the alleged gas chambers could not have been used to kill people, as the amount of cyanide should then have been higher than in the chamber used just for fumigation and delousing.

Leuchter concluded his detailed report with this unambiguous statement:
“After reviewing all of the material and inspecting all of the sites at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, your author finds the evidence as overwhelming. There were no execution gas chambers at any of these locations. It is the best engineering opinion of this author that the alleged gas chambers at the inspected sites could not have then been, or now be, utilized or seriously considered to function as execution gas chambers.”
 

Leuchter also makes the observation that these ‘gas chambers’ were not properly sealed to prevent the gas from leaking out, that there was no way for the gas to be dispersed safely without endangering those nearby, and also that the chambers were too cold for the pellets of Zyklon B to vaporize.
Zundel has made an important point : history is not effectively written in scholarly journals aimed at the hundreds, but in forums and movements accessible to the millions.



"History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true."
- Leo Tolstoy



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