Fred A. Leuchter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Fred A. Leuchter

American holocaust denier

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Malden, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: engineer, Holocaust denier

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Fred Arthur Leuchter Jr.
(born February 7, 1943) is an American manufacturer of execution equipment and Holocaust denier who is best known as the author of the Leuchter report, a pseudoscientific document that alleges there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Prior to this, he had been contracted by the authorities of several states in the U.S.
to improve the design of instruments for capital punishment.
Leuchter was charged in Massachusetts with having misrepresented himself to penitentiaries as an engineer, despite having no relevant qualifications; Leuchter plea bargained with state prosecutors, and received two years probation.
He has also been accused of running a "death row shakedown", in which Leuchter threatened to testify for the defense in capital cases if he was not given contracts for his services by that state.Leuchter became internationally known for his testimony in defense of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel in 1988.
His study for Zündel's trial has been referred to as the Leuchter Report since it was published by Zündel with that title.
Leuchter's work is often presented by Holocaust deniers as scientifically-based evidence for Holocaust denial, despite his research methods and findings having been widely discredited on both scientific and historical grounds.
Leuchter, and his report, are the subject of Mr.
Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A.
Leuchter, Jr., a 1999 feature-length documentary film by Errol Morris.