THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFWhat had Remer done? As editor of the periodical Remer Depesche,the highly-decorated front-line officer had published the resultsof a number of scientific expert reports. One of them was the LeuchterReport, which former Minister of Justice Engelhard described as “scientificresearch”. Fred Leuchter is a constructor of execution gaschambers that use hydrogen cyanide in the USA. Later, the Director ofthe Auschwitz Museum, Dr. F. Piper, assigned the Jan Sehn Institut inCracow to make a similar expert report. A technical expert report inGerman in conjunction with the renowned Institute Fresenius followedin February 1992. The discussion that the General had opened up withhis publications was desired even by the Federal President. A letterfrom the Presidential Office on October 23, 1989, states that vonWeizsäcker “will follow the discussion [on the Leuchter Report]closely”. Had the Federal President lured General Remer into a trapwith this letter? Remer naturally felt that ex-Minister of Justice Engelhardand the Federal President had encouraged him to publish his facts.Homicidal gas chambers that never came in contact withgasAll three expert reports came to the same conclusion: The gaschambers of Auschwitz and Birkenau testified to by witnesses nevercame in contact with Zyklon B. In legal terms: the weapon was notloaded. For better understanding: When hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B)comes into contact with concrete or stones, it forms permanent compoundswith traces of iron in such building material. The compoundthat develops is blue (hence the German name Blue Acid (Blausäure)for hydrogen cyanide, although the gas itself is colorless) and occurson the surface and within the walls exposed to gas. Today, one can easilysee a massive blue dyeing on both inner and outer walls in the delousingbuildings. There is no such dyeing in the alleged homicidal gaschambers. Chemical analyses of samples from the delousing buildingsshow very high concentrations of cyanide, while no traces can befound in samples from the alleged gas chambers. Scientific expert reportswere never produced for any of the numerous National Socialisttrials. No physical proof was ever offered.357