Institute for Historical Review

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 the IHR Web site 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:
    • Krema I
    • Krema II
    • Krema III
    • Krema IV
    • Krema V
    • Delousing Chamber and Experimental Gas Chamber for Delousing; Unknown Heater Circulator (Majdanek)
  • 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