Film star Mel Gibson’s father said the Holocaust was a “fiction” and that Jews are conspiring to take over the world. Hutton Gibson, 85, said the Nazis could not have exterminated 6 million Jews, because “they simply got up and left. They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles,” according to the New York Daily News.
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