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agreed to stop "using in any manner whatsoever the title

'engineer'", and to stop distribution of the Leuchter report.

Despite the agreement, one can still obtain copies of the

report from Rothe's store in Kitchener. According to the Boston

Globe, Leuchter was deported from Britain in 1991. Leonard

Zakim, a spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League of

B'nai Brith, said, "Leuchter's admissions of lying to promote

his business in violation of Massachusetts law should serve to

discredit Leuchter wherever he travels." **[See comments on

Leuchter after this article]

6. Paul Fromm

Paul Fromm claims to be the director of a group called

"Canadian Association of Free Expression". While the name

sounds innocuous, the truth is darker. According to

investigative journalist Russ Bellant, Fromm helped found the

Canadian neo-Nazi organization Western Guard. In a 1983

interview with a Toronto Star reporter, Fromm was caught

dissembling. He said he "never had any connection" with the

Western Guard, but the Star account revealed that Fromm

himself had had a letter published in the Star in February

1973 that stated "... in May, 1972, many members, myself

included, left the Western Guard...". Asked to explain the

discrepancy, Fromm said in a Star interview that it was "a

matter of semantics". In Julian Sher's 1983 account of the Ku

Klux Klan, Fromm is reported as saying that belief of a

supreme race "is a good idea." Remarks like this caused him

to be kicked out of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.

In September 1991, the Star reported that Fromm was ejected

from a Toronto meeting on race relations after he blurted out,

"Scalp them," while a native Canadian was speaking. In April

1992, the Star reported on Fromm's 1990 speech before the

Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi organization advocating white

supremacy. According to the Star, Fromm told the neo-Nazi

group, "We're all on the same side." Fromm later claimed in a

Star article that he hadn't known about the Heritage Front's

neo-Nazi views. But Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish

Congress disputes this. "He had to know," Farber said. "There

was a Nazi flag with swastikas, about 10 feet long and 5 feet

tall, just to his right. Furthermore, just a few months after the

Star article came out, Fromm spoke again before the same

group."

7. Conclusions

Although the holocaust "revisionists" and their defenders

claim to be in pursuit of the truth, the record says otherwise.

Although some claim to be advocates of free speech, their real

goal is a regime that would deny free speech, and more, to

Jews and other minorities. It is easy to dismiss Rothe, Irving,

Leuchter, Mullins, and Fromm as kooks. But according to

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

self-trained individuals, particularly in fields for which no

academic accreditation exists, to advertise or present

themselves as Leuchter did--an "execution engineer." His

expertise in that field is amply demonstrated by work

experience. Shallit's comments are based on the events

following Leuchter's appearance in the Zuendel trial. A New

York based group called Holocaust Survivors and Friends in

Pursuit of Justice brought action in Massachussets based on

an obscure and never tested state law saying that people

working in areas involving public safety could not present

themselves as engineers unless they were licensed as such

by the state. Of amusing and revealing relevance is the fact

that the charge was brought and supported by a judge that

designing execution devices qualifies as working in an area

involving "public safety"!! Surely this is close to the height of

doublespeak. (See "The Execution Protocol" by Trombley,

Crown Publishing 1992)

But in 1990, according to the New York Times, his

misrepresentations began to unravel. The Attorney

General of Alabama questioned his expertise. Illinois

terminated his contract after determining that his

machine for injecting cyanide would cause prisoners

unnecessary pain.

The Alabama warden's actions were in response to Leuchter's

having testified against the Florida prison system when an

inmate brought suit against her electrocution sentence on the

basis that the antiquated equipment there constituted cruel

and unusual punishment, which it demonstrably did. The

Alabama produced letter to other wardens warned them that if

Leuchter tried to sell them equipment and they refused to buy,

he might wind up testifying against them. This libelous and

career threatening action might have brought great financial

penalty on him and the state of Alabama were not Leuchter by

this time a sufficient pariah who saw no hope of getting a fair

shake in court. The comments regarding Illinois describe only

an excuse given which has no basis in reality.

Then, in October 1990, Leuchter was charged with

fraud in Massachusetts. It was revealed that he had

only a bachelor's degree in history, and was not

licensed to practice engineering in Massachusetts. In

June 1991, to avoid a trial in which he would surely

have been convicted, Leuchter admitted that, "I am

not and have never been registered as a professional

engineer", and that he had falsely represented himself

as one. Under the consent agreement, Leuchter

agreed to stop "using in any manner whatsoever the

title 'engineer'", and to stop distribution of the

Leuchter report.

See comments above about this charge. Leuchter did not at

any time advertise himself as a "professional engineer" but

only as an "execution engineer." He never "falsely

represented himself as one" as Shallit states. It is not even

illegal for him to advertise and work as an execution engineer

unless one would seriously make the case that this involves

public safety. It is not illegal in Massachussets to work and