The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth
A Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland by an Execution Equipment Expert
Copyright Samisdat Publishers Ltd. 1988. Please note: Commercial use and/or exploitation is expressly prohibited by copyright. This book appears on this website by express permission from Samisdat Publishers.
Table of Contents:
- Publishers Comments
- Foreword by Robert Faurisson
- Purpose
- Background
- Scope
- Synopsis and Findings
- Methodology
- Use of HCN and Zyklon B as Fumigant
- Design Criteria for a Fumigation Facility
- Design Criteria for an Execution Gas Chamber
- United States Execution Gas Chambers since 1920
- Toxic Effects of HCN gas
- A Brief history of the Alleged German Execution Gas Chambers
- Design and Procedures at the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers
- Crematories
- Forensic Considerations of HCN, Cyano-compounds and Crematories
- Auschwitz, Krema 1
- Birkenau:
- Krema II
- Krema III
- Krema IV
- Krema V
- Majdanek
- Statistics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Graphics Analysis of Samples Taken at Auschwitz & Birkenau Showing Total Cyanide
- Appendix 2: Sample Analysis Graph
- Appendix 3: Translation of Documents No. NI-9912: Directives for the Use of Prussic Acid
- Appendix 4: Maps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Madjanek
- Appendix 5: Illustrations:
- Appendix 6: Letter from F. Leuchter to E. Zündel, dated May 14, 1988; clarification of Krema II and Krema III drawing.
- Appendix 7: Letter from Bill Armontrout, Warden of Missouri State Penitentiary
- Appendix 8: Letter from Fred Leuchter to Alpha Analytical Laboratory, dated March 9, 1998
- Appendix 9: Certification for Chemical Analysis of Waters by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dept. of Environment Quality Engineering, dated March 15, 1988
- Appendix 10: Document International Military Tribunal, DOC. L-022
- Publisher's Comments