Reading: Julian Sher, "White Hoods: Canada's Ku Klux Klan",
New Star Books, Vancouver, 1983. James Ridgeway, "Blood
in the Face", Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1991. Russ
Bellant, "Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party",
South End Press, Boston, 1991. Steve Mertl and John Ward,
"Keegstra: The Trial, The Issues, and The Consequences",
Western Producer Prairie Books, Saskatoon, 1985. James
Coates, "Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist
Right," Hill and Wang, New York, 1987.
About the author.
Jeffrey Shallit, who is not Jewish, is associate professor in the
computer science department at the University of Waterloo.
CODOH comments on Shallit's comments about
Leuchter:
Rothe sells the "Leuchter report" in his store, a book
purporting to be an engineer's refutation of the
existence of gas chambers in Poland. (David Irving
also uses Leuchter's report to support his claims.)
What Rothe will not tell you, however, is that Fred
Leuchter is not an engineer.
Fred Leuchter is self-trained in the extremely arcane field of
execution equipment, and before smears such as Mr. Shallit's
had their effect he worked for numerous state prison systems
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