Robert Jan van Pelt
Actor · b. 1955 · Haarlem, Netherlands
Robert Jan van Pelt is an author, architectural historian, and professor at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Shoah related topics, through which he has come to address its denial.
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Movie7.0DocumentaryDocumentary filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the case of a man who became an authority on capital punishment, but was discredited when he got involved on the wrong side of a court case. Leuchter, a meek man whose appearance belies his grim expertise, develops what he says is a more effective electric chair. Before long he's in demand from officials who want his opinions on other kinds of execution. But when called to aid the case of an accused Holocaust denier, Leuchter's problems begin.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
1999 · 72 votes
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TV6.8DocumentaryA detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.