28. For what purpose was, and is, this gas manufactured?

Ernst Zündel Replies:
Rebuttal # 28

This is a straightforward question.

Zyklon-B, the alleged mass murder weapon, was manufactured for the extermination of the typhus-bearing louse and other pests. It was used for that purpose by the German Army in its installations, namely as an insecticide – and it is used to this day for that purpose all over the world by other Army installations.

It is likewise used in prisons, hospitals etc. to fumigate clothing and quarters and all kinds of goods which can be attacked by pests. It is, and has been, used in food storages, cattle stables, barracks, wooden artwork in buildings, POW camps, forced labour camps, concentration camps – even ships, railroad cars, freight devices and vehicles like buses or trucks. It is readily available today.

It bears repeating that in all of European history there has not been one country that has ever used “homicidal gas chambers” as a method of executing condemned criminals. Execution by the elaborate, cumbersome, expensive and dangeous gas chamber method is a uniquely American idea and method. One of the last people executed by gas in America, ironically, was the Jew Caryl Chessman, a convicted sex offender and murderer, before there was a halt in the 1960s of gassing murderers in the USA.

The allegation that Zyklon B was ever used to kill people on a massive scale by the Germans in their concentration camps, especially in Auschwitz, is a claim without hard, scientific, forensic evidence. It is based ONLY on eyewitness accounts and on outrageous and contradictory claims which were never put to the scientific test until Ernst Zundel stood in front of a judge in Toronto in 1988 – such as by soil or tissue analyses, by cross examination, or by support from other, “harder” evidence, documentary as well as physical.

The Leuchter Report that came out of that trial was an historical First – and the world will never be the same! It was the beginning of the end of the Mendacious Lie that masterminded and subverted politics world-wide throughout the second half of our century.