An Austrian politician was forced to leave his party after making controversial statements about the Holocaust. But John Gudenus, a member of the right-wing Freedom Party, said Tuesday he would not give up his seat in Parliament after asserting that there should be no taboos when discussing gas chambers used in the Holocaust, and that scientific examinations should be made of them.
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