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statistics compiled by the League for Human Rights of B'nai

Brith, anti-Semitism in Canada is at its highest level in a

decade. There were 251 reported incidents of harassment and

vandalism against Jews in Canada in 1991, up 42% from two

years earlier. The reader may feel that anti-Semitism is only a

distant threat. But consider this: many of the sources I sought

in preparing this article are listed as ``missing'' in our

University library. Some articles had been ripped out of

magazines. Others books, though still on the shelves, I found

to contain anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi graffiti. To repeat a saying

attributed to Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for evil

to triumph is for good men to do nothing." For Further

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

accepted myths regarding non-existent gas chambers. His

sample analyses have, in fact, been independently verified by

the later work of both a Polish government commission,

Austrian engineer Walter Leuftl, and the inarguably qualified

German chemist, Germar Rudolf.

Shallit does not indicate if Pressac indicates what relevance

the "documents in the Auschwitz Museum" might have on the

matter. Given that much of what is on display at Auschwitz are

reproductions with obvious liberties taken to closer match

wartime accounts, a fact only admitted in the last few years,

one would have to be wary of whatever they purport to claim is

documentation. And the plain fact is that no "German

blueprints of the gas chambers" exist. What does exist are

blueprints of the various Krema (crematoria) which supporters

of gas chambers claim were "code worded" to hide the actual

use to which they would be put. These blueprints do exist, and

nothing on them supports the gas chamber theory--none of the

special provisions one would expect, such as sealing, gas

introduction equipment, forced air circulation of the closed

room(s) or adequate ventilation are indicated.

After a particularly traumatic cross-examination by the attorney

for Prof. Robert Faurisson, during which Pressac became

incoherent to the point of tears on the stand, he has retreated

from any active defense of his extremely flawed work, and it is

no longer cited by top-level historians. His alleged refutation of

challenges to the existence of gas chambers is a huge

embarrassment of a book now trotted out only by lay people

such as Mr. Shallit, and professional promoters of the gas

chamber myths.

With his false credentials, he convinced authorities in

several states in the U.S. to let him construct

execution machinery for their prisons.

Leuchter presented no false credentials. It is common for