Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
December 29, 1999
Documentary
1h 31m
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A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Errol Morris
- Self Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
- Self Robert Jan van Pelt
- Self David Irving
- Self Shelly Shapiro
- Re-enactment cast David Collins
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Adolf Hitler
- Self - Interviewer (voice) (uncredited) Errol Morris
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Keywords
- prison
- neo-nazism
- auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
- gas chamber
- gallows
- coffee
- execution
- hanging
- denial
- revisionist
- holocaust (shoah) denial