1:02:01
He's not the kind of person
who would strike you.
1:02:03
He's a mouse of a man.
1:02:07
He's also a man
who is totally honest
and totally innocent,
1:02:12
innocent in the sense
of being a simpleton.
1:02:15
He went into this
as a glorious adventure.
1:02:19
He was taken out of oblivion.
He was given this task
to perform.
1:02:24
He traveled abroad,
probably for the first time
in his life, to Poland.
1:02:27
He came back with these
earth-shattering results.
1:02:30
The big point.:
1:02:33
there is no significant
residue of cyanide
in the brickwork.
1:02:38
That's what converted me.
1:02:40
When I read that in the report
in the courtroom in Toronto,
1:02:44
I became
a hard-core disbeliever.
1:02:50
[ Zündel ]
On April 20, 1988,
1:02:54
Adolf Hitler's birthday,
1:02:59
Fred Leuchter, not knowing
he's gonna be delivering a
birthday present to the führer,
1:03:04
steps into
the witness box in Toronto.
1:03:07
Devastation
reigns all around.
1:03:14
The prosecution
and the judge...
1:03:16
were in a visible
state of panic.
1:03:21
I could see
the facial muscles
working in the judge.
1:03:24
I could see the pale face
of the prosecutor.
1:03:27
This was history-making.
That was clear
to everybody present.
1:03:31
They cross-examined Fred.
1:03:34
Immediately, of course,
they zeroed in...
1:03:36
on his soft or inadequate
academic credentials
for what he was doing.
1:03:42
The judge made a decision
that could have been
very dangerous to us...
1:03:42
The judge made a decision
that could have been
very dangerous to us...
1:03:46
in that he said,
"The samples by themselves
are worthless,
1:03:51
unless the defense
can bring the man
who did the testing. "
1:03:56
[ Man ]
I went up to Toronto
on very short notice,