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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