10. Acknowledgements
Not everybody who was directly or indirectly involved in creating this expert report or who expressed their support, can be thanked here. Also on behalf of those who cannot be mentioned, I am expressing my gratitude to the following individuals and institutions for their support:
- to the Forschungs- und Materialprüfungsanstalt (Research and Material Testing Agency) Baden-Württemberg, Otto Graf Institut, Department 1: Building Materials, Stuttgart, for informative discussions and their permission to use their rich literature;
- to the Forschungsinstitut für Pigmente und Lacke e.V. (Research Institute for Pigments and Varnishes), Stuttgart, for permission to use their library;
- to the research center of the VARTA Batterie AG, Kelkheim, for performing mercury penetration tests of building materials;
- to the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (Federal Archive-Military Archive) in Freiburg for their information about Soviet tank engines during World War two;
- to the Degussa AG for sending information material on Iron Blue (trade name Vossen-Blau®);
- to the Detia Freyberg GmbH and ARED GmbH for their information on Zyklon B;
- to the Institut Fresenius, Taunusstein, for giving me insights into their working and analysis methods and for their informative discussions about analytic problems;
- to the Institut für Umweltanalytik (Institute for Environmental Analytics), Stuttgart, for their co-operation with the control and experimental analyses;
- to retired Major General Otto Ernst Remer, whose martial public statements were the reasons why this expert report became necessary in the first place;
- to Mr. Karl Philipp, whose initiative on behalf of O.E. Remer and whose logistic support enabled me to prepare this report;
- to Mr. Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson for critically reading the first manuscript in late 1991, and for supplying me with an abundance of documentary material;
- to Dipl.-Ing. Winfried Zwerenz for offering me his rooms and equipment to conduct experiments and for his sub-expert statements regarding ventilation and cremation techniques;
- to the certified engineers Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Förster, Ing. Emil Lachout, Dipl.-Ing. Arnulf Neumaier, Dipl.-Ing. Michael Gärtner, Dipl.-Ing. Harald Reich, Dipl.-Ing. Carl Hermann Christmann, Dipl.-Ing. R. Faßbender, and Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Fischer for their various support and research contributions;
- in particular to Dipl.-Ing. Baurat h.c. Walter Lüftl for all kinds of comments and suggestions on various questions of engineering;
- to Dr. Horst Leipprand and Otto Karl for their indispensable research on the properties of Zyklon B;
- to John C. Ball for his broader investigations of Allied air photos of Auschwitz;
- to Carlo Mattogno for his extremely detailed and productive critique and for his excellent archival studies which he allowed me to use and quote extensively;
- to Friedrich Paul Berg for his very valuable research on executions with hydrogen cyanide in the USA;
- to Werner Wegner, and Jan Markiewicz for their friendly correspondence in this matter;
- to Dr. Myroslaw Dragan for his productive critique regarding the ingestion of hydrogen cyanide by the victims and his instructive cremation experiments;
- to Charles D. Provan for his fruitful, though unfortunately still unpublished, critique regarding the Zyklon B introduction holes;
- to attorneys at law Hajo Herrmann, Dr. Günther Herzogenrath-Amelung, Dr. Klaus Göbel, Jürgen Rieger and Dr. Herbert Schaller for their support in legal matters;
- to Dr. Heinz Knödler, Linda M. Faith, Andrew Fuetterer, and Dr. Fredrick Töben for proofreading various versions of this report;
- to Carlos Porter, Michael Humphrey, and James M. Damon for various contributions to get this work translated from German into English;
- to the historians Dr. Rainer Zitelmann, Prof. Dr. Werner Georg Haverbeck, Prof. Dr. Hellmuth Diwald and Prof. Dr. Emil Schlee, Prof. Dr. Robert Hepp, Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, Dr. Walter Post, and Dr. Joachim Hoffmann for their encouragement;
- to my good friends Elda and Robert H. Countess, PhD, who were there for me when I became a refugee and needed friends, who helped me to build up this fine publishing house Theses & Dissertations Press, and particularly to Bob who discussed many details with me and did the final proofreading (blame any typos on him J
);
- to the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland (Central Council of Jews in Germany), who, by their highly inappropriate intervention, encouraged my dismissal from finishing my doctoral dissertation, from the prospect of pursuing a post-doctoral degree, and from all duties of a professional career, so that I can dedicate 24 hours a day to revisionism;
- to the University of Stuttgart and the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, who successfully prevented that I waste my life in the ivory towers of science by denying me my PhD degree and dismissing me without notice;
- to the District Court Stuttgart, the County Court Tübingen, the County Court Böblingen, the County Court Weinheim, the County Court Berlin-Tiergarten, the County Court Munich, as well as the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (German Federal Review Office for Youth-Endangering Media) for trying to drown me in uncounted criminal prosecutions, which had as a consequence that I can now follow my revisionist publishing activities in exile, undisturbed by the terror of the German authorities;
- and finally to the German and British media for their uncounted inflammatory articles and footages against me, forcing me into inner emigration and giving me even more time to dedicate for revisionism.
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