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

Errol Morris, producer and director of "Fast Cheap and Out of Control" and "The Thin Blue Line," introduces us to engineer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. who first gained a reputation for trying to make capital punishment more humane. As a gas chamber expert, he was asked by neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel to investigate Auschwitz and determine whether poison gas was ued there. Morris describes his documentary as an examination of vanity and self-deception. From the Lectures Program archive.