In a new
attempt at "debuking" the Holocaust, Iran has invited Australian Holocaust denier Dr. Frederick Tobin to bear witness to the fact that Jews could not have been killed in gas chambers in Auschwitz. Tobin is presenting to the "The Auschwitz Model" in which he contends that upon visiting Auschwitz he "could not find the holes from which gas came out of." Tobin also adds that the Holocaust is a "myth" and backs claims made by
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel should be wiped out or sent to live back in Germany and Austria.
More below......
Here is a bit of info on Dr. Frederick Tobin:
Four years ago, an Australian federal court ordered Tobin to remove claims published on his websites that the Holocaust never happened, saying that the publication is offensive to Australian Jews. Following the trial of British Holocaust denier David Irving , who was sent by an Austrian court to prison for three years, Tobin's planned visit to Iran received heavy media coverage in the Australian media and prompted a debate about freedom of expression and the right to deny the Holocaust.
I couldn't find much else on Tobin but I did find a letter from Tobin responding to a letter by Jamie McCarthy in regards to Tobin's views on the Holocaust.
Note: Here is only a few lines from the letter, it is very long so follow the link above for a complete text as well as McCarthy's opening letter and rebuttal.
Thank you for your 8 June communication which I found very interesting. Isn't it amazing that fifty years after the event there are still issues which are alive and far from settled - and that we can actually participate in a Holocaust debate. How wrong people like Professor Deborah Lipstadt are when they claim that "there is nothing to debate about the Holocaust".................to this day I can think of a number of people who still believe the war-time soap and lampshade propaganda to be based on facts. It is only if we can fearlessly ask questions about the alleged Jewish-Nazi Holocaust, then we will get to the truth-content of those allegations which state that Germans gassed millions of people in homicidal gas chambers.........
Tobin will be lecturing at the Iranian Foreign Ministry's conference to investigate the Holocaust myth, which will "probe the scientific arguments related to claims of genocide committed by the Nazis against the Jews."
cross posted at: The Middle Eastern Dilemma