Thursday 24 July 2014

MrDeath: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Dir: Errol Morris
1999
****
Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is the leading expert on Instruments of Capital Punishment. What makes him the leading expert? Easy, he was the only one in his field. He's obviously a very capable engineer with a problem solving brain to match but expert is probably a push. When he was asked by revisionist historian (that's holocaust denier to you and me) Ernst Zundel to investigate what was thought to be the Gas chambers at Auschwitz he caused quite the stir with what he found. Death expert, holocaust denier, egotist, seemingly nice guy...this is Errol Morris documentary making at its finest.

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