Please forward to Germar Rudolf.

Dear Germar:

I am Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine. I would like to ask you a few questions about your research. In Errol Morris' film "Mr. Death," he shows the fatal mistakes made by Fred Leuchter in his chemical analysis of the concrete and brick from numerous locations at Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

For someone bearing the public burden of a modestly respected magazine it is rather surprising to read this demonstration of ignorance of the scientific method.

Leuchter and Rudolf in fact did something completely unnecessary but of interest to the world in general.

As you should know from consideration of alien abductions, witchcraft, magic and the like, the burden of evidence is upon those who make the primary positive assertion. Those who claim to have been abducted by aliens and those who claim to have seen gas chambers and those who claim the remains at Auschwitz are gas chambers bear exactly the same burden of producing physical evidence in support of their claims.

As we know, that has not been done. And of course you must know the meaning of physical evidence. And you must know that if eyewitnesses are to be accepted then we would have to accept witchcraft and the like. And that is why we only accept testimony to physical evidence and reject testimony out of hand.

Leuchter and Rudolf have at most presented the believers with yet another level of evidence they must produce to establish their claims of gas chambers.

The pretension of believers that they have a position that must be assailed is in no wise different from as assertion that witches exist or that aliens abduct people. Such is the pomposity of the severely undereducated.

1. Since the gas chamber at Auschwitz 1 is a reconstruction,

You even write like a witchcraft believer. If it is a REconstruction then of course the original construction plans must be available. As they are not available it can at best be an artist's conception without basis in fact. From pictures commonly available on the web, it is quite clear the artist had no concept of cyanide or engineering.

The true believers bear the burden of providing physical evidence that there was an original. As that it lacking, this question is meaningless. I find it very surprising you are not aware it is meaningless.

True believers also bear the burden of evidence in that regard. But such evidence is sorely lacking. One would most simply ask, why is anything left?

Again, true believers bear the burden of providing the physical evidence that there were actual gas chambers. You are assuming a fact not in evidence.

Rather you are asking, "How do you know the aliens didn't abduct me?" Rather the burden is to demonstrate the existence of space aliens in the first place. Again, I am quite surprised you do not know this.

What kind of weathering is "brutal" and of what does it consist? But in fact were you to read the report you would find that addressed quite adequately.

I am also quite surprised you refer to the Kremas when only discredited "eyewitnesses" claim there was gassing in the crematoria. The current guesses in the search for the gas chambers do not address the Kremas at all. Again, I am surprised you are unaware of this.

It is extremely imprecise of you to mention Z-B instead of plain old cyanide. You are aware they are the same thing are you not?

And again, if you had bothered reading Rudolf's report you would know that is well addressed.

I do not know of Mr. Rudolf's available time but I would think he would expect you to have actually read his report before bothering him with questions that are answered in it. If it were my report, I would.

For myself, I would also dismiss your questions with a strong recommendation you obtain a firm foundation in science, evidence and in fact in the tools of skepticism before questioning again.

And as I am aware of the foolishness of Green's commentary and the McCarthy&Green nonsense, and since you are obviously working only from that material and not from having read all of the available material including Rudolf's I, myself, would simply dismiss you as impertinent.