Professor at University of Bergen Denied the Holocaust in Blog

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A history professor at the University of Bergen in Norway published a claim on his blog that the Nazi extermination camps were not meant to exterminate. The professor wrote the posts under a pseudonym, and agreed with a claim that the number of victims was lower than six million. In the posts he criticizes what he described as a "flood of lies" about the Holocaust.

The professor confirmed to an Austrian newspaper that the blog was his. After the posts were exposed, the professor claimed that the Austrian newspaper took his remarks out of context, and that he published the posts as a private individual, with no connection to his employer.

A few weeks ago, the university where the professor works sent an official letter supporting a boycott of Israel. The university's president said freedom of expression applies to everyone.