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Holocaust denier David Irving
was shown on Italian television claiming there were no gas chambers at
Auschwitz.

During a program that aired last Friday, Irving was
shown at the former German Nazi death camp in Poland, which he apparently
visited recently. During the Italian documentary, Irving explains that
engineering techniques at the time weren't sufficient to allow the Nazis
to gas people en masse.

A spokesman for the Auschwitz museum,
Jaroslav Mensfelt, said Irving likely visited there a week or two ago, but without the knowledge or
consent of museum officials.

"He is a persona non grata here,'' Mensfelt said. "It would
be best if he never came here. Such people desecrate the place and are not
welcome," he told The Associated Press.

Irving was released from jail
in Vienna in December after serving 13 months of a three-year sentence for
Holocaust denial. In an interview with Sky TG24 earlier this year, Irving said
the Nazis did kill millions of Jews, but that mass killings did not take
place at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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