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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

Documentary
Release Date: 1999, December 29
Directors: Errol Morris
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Independent Film Channel, Fourth Floor Pictures, Scout Productions, Channel 4 Television
Cast: Adolf Hitler, David Collins, Jeff Brown, David Irving, Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan van Pelt, Caroline Leuchter, James Roth, Shelly Shapiro, Suzanne Tabasky, Ernst Zündel, Daniel Polsby

Overview:

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

Keywords:

prison auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp denial gallows execution hanging neo-nazism gas chamber coffee holocaust (shoah) denial revisionist