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Oh god, 't IHR. Biostabil-geschiedschrijving.
Ik vind het op z'n minst nogal vreemd dat je denkt dat er een ''issue'' zou zijn omdat er een filmpje rondwaart en je wel eens een artikel hebt gelezen.
Maar ik zal je twee leugens uit het artikel aanwijzen, die hopelijk enig licht werpen op de ware aard van deze ''onderzoekers'':
America's leading gas chamber expert, Fred A. LeuchterLeuchter is een oplichter:
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. 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."
Leuchter is a self-described expert in the construction of execution machines. With his false credentials, he convinced authorities in several states in the U. S. to let him construct execution machinery for their prisons. 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.
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. Despite the agreement, one can still obtain copies of the report from Rothe's store in Kitchener.
http://www.nizkor.org/hwe(...)rey/sr-leuchter.htmlEach year for decades, tens of thousands of visitors to Auschwitz have been shown an execution "gas chamber" in the main camp, supposedly in its "original state." In January 1995 the prestigious French weekly magazine L'Express acknowledged that "everything is false" about this "gas chamber," and that it is actually a postwar reconstruction. [4] (For saying this same thing at a publlic meeting in Germany in 1990, British historian David Irving was fined 30,000 marks, and is still banned from that country.Irving beweert dat er nooit iemand vergast is in Auschwitz. Punt. Dat hij beweerd zou hebben dat dit slechts replica's waren en er daarom onmogelijk iemand vermoord kon zijn, was een klinkklare leugen, zoals bleek tijdens zijn proces;
9.13 Irving defended his comment in the same speech that more people died in the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. He claimed that in his speech he had in fact referred to the gas chambers of Auschwitz "which are shown to the tourists", that is, the gas chambers which were reconstructed after the war. He claimed he always added those words. Irving explained that the applause from the audience had drowned those last words of the sentence. But, when the video was played, it was apparent, as Irving had to accept, that he had not added the words "which are shown to the tourists". Irving had to accept also that he has on other occasions, for example at Moers in Canada in 1990,
claimed that the extermination camps not only at Auschwitz but also elsewhere are "dummies".
http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org/ieindex.htmlOver Irving is het volgende minstens even verhelderend;
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/f/funke-hajo/http://www.skepsis.nl/irving.html