as a germicidal antiseptic at Auschwitz?
J.-C. Pressac, the author of AUSCHWITZ: THE TECHNIQUE AND OPERATION OF THE GAS CHAMBERS accused Leuchter and Faurisson of this because Faurisson used the verb ‘disinfect’ in describing what the fumigant did when it was used to fumigate a building. This interpretation of Dr. Faurisson’s loose use the word when referring to delousing is a false one. Deborah Lipstadt also picked up Pressac’s straw man in her attack on Leuchter and Faurisson in her book DENYING THE HOLOCAUST. Fred Leuchter explained that the morgues of the crematories at Auschwitz were probably deloused with Zyklon B and that this is why minute traces of a byproduct of the gas were detected in the samples of brick and plaster taken from the ruins at the former Nazi concentration camp. In interpreting the term ‘disinfect’ as meaning a process in which germs are killed rather than meaning a delousing or fumigation process, Pressac countered an explanation Faurisson and Leuchter never made by derisively pointing out washing s
