Thursday, September 16, 2010

Irving: Auschwitz is 'Disney-style' tourist site

He accused the Poles of building fake watchtowers at Auschwitz and creating a 'Disney' atmosphere there. He said many of the death camps where the worst atrocities took place have been neglected because they are not as 'marketable' and 'don't have a Holiday Inn down the road'.

'I have been a historian for 40 years, I know a fake when I see it, when you look at old photographs of Auschwitz, those towers aren't on the photographs,' he said.

Amplify’d from www.dailymail.co.uk

'My death camp tours aren't sick': Holocaust denier David Irving defends plans for 'Nazi Travel' tourist trail

British historian David Irving in a court room in Vienna

Controversial historian David Irving has hit back at claims his guided history tours of Polish death camps are 'sick'.

Claiming that it is the Polish authorities who are 'tasteless' for their promotion of Auschwitz as a 'Disney-style' tourist site, Mr Irving defended his own trip which is fully-booked with American and British tourists.

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