THE RUDOLF REPORT

8. EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL ANALYSESof which some three million Germans lost their lives, as well as it beingthe greatest land robbery of modern history. Many Poles fear intheir hearts that the post-war state of Poland stands and falls withAuschwitz. This may explain Prof. Markiewicz’s and his colleagues’scientific contortions, but it fails to be a justification for them. Even thepossible circumstance that the scientists assigned to the topic were notand are not chemists and that their laboratory was perhaps notequipped up to Western standards, cannot explain this, since an analysisof the total cyanide concentration is not expensive in terms of laboratoryequipment and the chemistry involved is anything but complicated.The manner with which the Polish scientists approached the problem,however, gives rise to serious suspicion that this was an attempt atscientific fraud, a suspicion which is also supported by the fact thatthey were unable to justify their incorrect methods of measurementexcept through their incompetence and ignorance.The conclusions to be drawn from the above is clear: the only‘scientific’ attempt to refute Fredrick A. Leuchter’s sensational argumentproves, upon closer examination, to be one of the greatest scientificfalsifications of the 20 th century.How desperate must one really be, if it is believed necessary tostoop to such methods in an attempt to defend the established versionof the Holocaust, i.e., the alleged systematic extermination of the Jewsin homicidal ‘gas chambers’?8.4.3. The Memory HoleAt the end of chapter 6.6.5., I already referred to the bold lies ofAlbert Meinecke from the German press agency dpa regarding the allegedshort life term of hydrogen cyanide in masonry. A new cornyjoke was recently added to this debate by Prof. James Roth from theAlpha Analytic Laboratories, Ashland, Massachusetts. I discuss thisevent here because Prof. Roth’s allegations were widely publicized bythe international media in connection with the libel case of British historianDavid Irving against Deborah E. Lipstadt. 515For his documentary movie Mr. Death on Fredrick A. Leuchter,Errol Morris also interviewed Prof. Dr. James Roth. In 1988, Roth’s515 This claim played a role in the verdict which should not be underestimated, cf. judgmentGray, op. cit. (note 66), §13.79; cf. note 68.273