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contains live polio germs. Other books depict Jews as

parasites, living off their gentile hosts. In what has to be one of

the most bizarre of Mullins' beliefs, it has been reported by L.

J. Davis that Mullins has claimed that the phrase "Have a nice

day" is a code for Jews to begin killing Christians. Mullins'

writings have been adopted wholesale by violent extremists in

the US, such as the Posse Comitatus. Should we not be more

than a little worried to see those writings appearing in the

window of a store in Kitchener?

5. Fred 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. 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 u

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 ma

'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 i

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 co

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