"Leuchter Vindicated" - a UseNet Response
A UseNet Response from Dr. Danny Keren
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 15:56:58 GMT
This stuff has been posted here months ago, and refuted. There is a long
file which addresses it more carefuly, but here are some major points:
1) Leuchter, who claims to be an "engineer", was exposed as a liar and a
fraud. His only education consists of a BA in history, 1964. He admits to
have no formal training in toxicology, biology, chemistry etc.
2) During his testimony at the Zundle trial in Canada, Leuchter not only
lied about his professional past, he also ridiculed himself by proving not
to have even a vague idea of what he is talking about. For instance, one of
the claims Holocaust deniers make again and again is that there are less
traces of cyanide compounds in the remains of the gas chambers in Auschwitz
than in the "delousing chambers" in which clothes were deloused (using the
same gas, hydrogen cyanide). As anyone with some training in toxicology
knows, it takes a much higher concentration of the gas to kill lice, bugs
etc than to kill humans and other warm blooded creatures (the concentration
has to be up to 16,000 Parts Per Million; humans die when exposed to 300
PPM). Furthermore, to kill lice etc an exposure time of many hours is
needed, while people die in minutes (like in the execution gas chambers in
the US, which use exactly the same gas). Hence, it is obvious that there
would be more cyanide traces in the delousing rooms.
When this fact was pointed out to Leuchter during his cross-examination by
Mr. Pearson, he made the following pathetic reply:
"I've never killed beetles. I, you know, I don't know. I haven't made
computations for killing beetles" [verbatim quote from the trial's
transcript].
Furthermore, he claims that it would be dangerous to house the furnaces for
cremating the victims in the same building in which the gas chambers were
located, because the "gas might explode". Of course, he didn't even bother
to check before exposing himself as a complete ignorant; the gas explodes
at a minimal concentration of 56,000 PPM - about 200 times more than the
lethal concentration (check, for instance, "The Merck Index" or any other
text on flammability and toxicity).
Even more amazing is to read what he answered with regard to the current
situation of the gas chambers in Auschwitz (demolished by the fleeing SS in
an attempt to hide criminal traces):
Q. Crematoria III has been demolished.
A. Um, there are still parts of Crematoruim III there, but for the most
part, the roof of the alleged gas chamber has crumbled and is all lying in
bits and pieces in the basement of what would have been the alleged gas
chamber.
Q. So, it's no longer subterranean?
A. That's correct. There's a whole in the ground.
Q. With respect to the gas chambers at Crematorium IV and V, those are
totally demolished.
A. With the exception of the foundation, yes.
Q. So, all that was there for you to examine was the foundation of the
building. Is that right?
A. That is correct.
Even more incredible is to see what Leuchter writes in his report:
"Evidence as to Krema function is non-existent since Krema's I oven has
been completely rebuilt, Kremas II and III are partially destroyed with
components missing, and Kremas IV and V are gone".
"Are gone"! Yet, he can still conjecture about how they functioned before
being destroyed...
The whole "report" is more or less the same - rubbish disguised as
"scientific research", written by an un-educated fool which doesn't even
bother to check the facts before writing his nonsense.
-Danny Keren.
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