Hundreds of flyers calling the Holocaust the "greatest swindle of all time" have been distributed around Melbourne's top university.

About 300 Holocaust denial leaflets were found at the University of Melbourne's city campus car park on Monday afternoon, the first day of semester one.

The University of Melbourne. Credit:Shannon Morris

The anti-Semitic flyers claimed Holocaust studies was "replete with nonsense, if not sheer fraud" and included a link to a Holocaust denial website claiming to provide "the facts … not the Hollywood production".

Dvir Abramovich, chairman of national Jewish human rights body the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission, said it was "utterly sickening that these repugnant flyers" had infiltrated the university.