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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Documentary

1999, Movie, 1h 31min

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.

"Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr." — documentary movie produced in UK and USA and released in 1999. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.5 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 31min. "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr." is not currently available to stream in Singapore. Save it and we'll notify you when it's available! Make sure to turn on push notifications as well.

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Critic Marc Savlov

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...more like a subtle, elegiac tone poem than an indictment of human banality and the evil that men do.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Meet Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a man who became an unlikely expert in execution methods, thanks to his family ties with corrections officers. He claimed to have witnessed an execution in an electric chair, which led him to design modifications that were adopted by many American states. Leuchter's career took a strange turn when he was asked to investigate whether gas chambers were used for executions at Auschwitz. He took samples of bricks from the site, but his conclusions were later disproven. As a result, Leuchter lost his work as a consultant to American prisons and his reputation was tarnished forever. Witness the rise and fall of Mr. Death, a man who went from being a respected figure in the world of executions to a disgraced and controversial figure, all thanks to his involvement with Holocaust denial.

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