Deborah Lipstadt - Denying the Holocaust

Christof Friedrich and Eric Thomson, The Hitler We Loved and Why (Reedy, W.V., 1977), pp. 72, 78, 116.

Manuel Prutschi, “The Zundel Affair,” in Antisemitism in Canada, ed. Alan Davies (Ontario, 1992), p. 264.

Zundel flyer addressed to “Comrades,” cited in Prutschi, “The Zundel Affair,” p. 258.

Alan Davies, “A Tale of Two Trials: Antisemitism in Canada,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 4 (1989), p. 77; Toronto Globe, Mar. 26, 1985; Prutschi, “The Zundel Affair,” p. 267.

Mark Bonokoski, “Neo Nazi Leads Protest,” Toronto Sun, April 19, 1978, cited in Prutschi, “The Zundel Affair,” p. 273.

Leonidas E. Hill, “The Trial of Ernst Zundel: Revisionism and the Law in Canada,” Simon Wiesenthal Annual, 1989, pp. 179, 192, 200.

Calgary Herald, Apr. 10, 1985, p. 1; Toronto Globe and Mail, Apr. 12, 1985, p. 3.

Alan T. Davies, “The Queen Versus James Keegstra: Reflections on Christian Antisemitism in Canada,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, vol. 9, nos. 1, 2 (January-May 1988), p. 112.

Red Deer Advocate, June 4, 1984; Toronto Globe and Mail, Apr. 8, 11, and 12, 1985.

Claude Adams, “Through the Fingers,” Canadian Lawyer (Apr. 1985), p. 18.

Kirk Makin, “Douglas Christie, Counsel for the Defence,” Ontario Lawyers Weekly, Mar. 29, 1985, pp. 12, 13.

Stanley R. Barrett, Is God a Racist? The Right Wing in Canada (Toronto, 1988), p. 161. For analysis of how the trial was covered by the Canadian press see Gabriel Weimann and Conrad Winn, Hate on Trial: The Zundel Affair, the Media, and Public Opinion in Canada (New York, 1986).

Calgary Herald, March 24, 1985, p. E8.

Robert Faurisson, “The Problem of the Gas Chambers,” Journal of Historical Review (Summer 1980), reprinted by the Institute for Historical Review in leaflet form.

Adams, “Through the Fingers,” p. 18.

Martin Broszat, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (October 1977), pp. 742, 769, cited in Patterns of Prejudice, no. 3–4 (1978), p. 8.

Sunday Times, July 10, 1977.

Ibid., June 12, 1977; July 10, 1977.

Robert Harris, Selling Hitler (New York, 1986), p. 189.

Canadian Jewish News, Mar. 16, 1989.

Ibid., London Jewish Chronicle, May 27, 1983.

Spotlight, June 1989.

Daily Telegraph, July 10, 1992.

“David Irving,” Clipping Collection, Calgary Jewish Community Council, Alberta, Canada.

Toronto Star, April 20, 1988; Stephen Trombley, The Execution Protocol: Inside America’s Capital Punishment Industry (New York, 1992), p. 85.

Robert Faurisson, “Foreword,” The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdenek, Poland (U.S.A., 1988), p. 1, (hereafter cited as Leuchter Report).

Robert Faurisson, “The Zundel Trials [1985 and 1988],” Journal of Historical Review (Winter 1988–89), p. 429.

Her Majesty the Queen vs. Ernst Zundel, District Court of Ontario 1988 (hereafter referred to as Zundel), p. 9037.

Fred Leuchter, “Inside the Auschwitz ‘Gas Chambers’,” a paper published by the Institute for Historical Review (reprinted from Journal of Historical Review, Summer 1989), p. 3.

Zundel, pp. 8984, 9223. Shelly Z. Shapiro, transcripts of conversation between Fred Leuchter and Shelly Z. Shapiro, February 2, 1990.

Leuchter Report, p. 4.

Fred Leuchter, “Inside the Auschwitz ‘Gas Chambers’,” p. 6.

Leuchter Report, p. 1.

Faurisson, “The Zundel Trials,” p. 429.

Zundel, p. 9075.

Ibid., pp. 8962, 8969, 8972, 8978.

Ibid., p. 8973.

See testimony of Raul Hilberg at the first Zundel trial. Her Majesty the Queen vs. Ernst Zundel, District Court of Ontario, 1985, p. 1112; Zundel, 1988, pp. 9010, 9011, 9013.

Zundel, p. 9048 (italics added).

Shelly Shapiro, “An Investigation,” in Truth Prevails: Demolishing Holocaust Denial: The End of “The Leuchter Report” ed. Shelly Shapiro (New York, 1990), p. 14; Arthur Goodman, “Leuchter: Exposed and Discredited by the Court,” in Shapiro, Truth Prevails, p. 78.

Zundel, p. 9056.

Ibid., pp. 8984, 9017, 9061, 9097, 9125, 9154, 9210, 9223.

Shapiro, Truth Prevails, p. 56.

Zundel, pp. 8894–95.

Ibid., p. 8983.

Ibid., pp. 9052–53.

Ibid., pp. 9034, 9038.

Ibid., pp. 9049–50.

Ibid., pp. 8976, 9052.

Ibid., p. 8951; Statement by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company, Oct. 2, 1990, cited in Shapiro, p. 28.

Zundel, p. 9009.

Leuchter Report, p. 10.

Zundel, pp. 9028, 9034.

Q. And that is all based on the assumption that the physical plan presently at that location in Poland is what was there in 1942, ‘43, ‘44 and ‘45? Is that right?

A. That is correct. Zundel, p. 9018.

Zundel, p. 9107. Under further cross-examination Leuchter backed down from some of the conclusions he had drawn in the report. Echoing Faurisson he originally argued that the chambers could not have functioned as execution sites because those whose job it was to throw the Zyklon-B down the roof vents and verify that the prisoners inside had died would themselves have died from exposure to the cyanide gas. Under cross-examination the Crown Counsel easily got Leuchter to agree to the fallacy of this conclusion:

Q. So this stuff you told us about people on the roof who dropped the gas down and how they would be committing suicide, it would take a matter of minutes before the gas got to them, wouldn’t it?

A. Unquestionably.

Q. So if they closed the vent and got off the roof, there would be nothing to concern them, would there?