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Established in 1994, the Adelaide Institute was formed from the former Truth Mission that was established in 1993 by Dr Gerald Fredrick Toben.. The Adelaide Institute is a Holocaust denial or revisionist group in Australia and is considered to be both a hate group and Anti-Semitic by Australian and international human rights groups. An Adelaide group that existed briefly in 1993. ...
Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ...
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Activities of the Institute
Members of the Institute have in the past been active in organisations such as Australians For Free Speech, which held a rally in 1994 at which Holocaust denial was a major theme. The Institute has also been implicated in distributing Holocaust denials through mainstream and alternative publications. Letters to the editors and talk back radio appears to be a favourite means of disseminating the worldview of the Institute. Prior to the opening of the film Schindler's List in Adelaide members of the institute were implicated in distributing Holocaust Denial pamphlets on the streets and through the mail to individuals, particularly those of Jewish background. In addition the members of the institute sent Holocaust Denials to prominent Australian newspapers masqueraded as objective movie reviews, some of which reached publication.
These actions are typical of those that the Institute undertakes in its stated goal of exposing "the Holocaust myth". The activity of the Institute seems to declined since its initial burst of activity in the middle 1990s. The Institute does however still maintain a website on which statements on various issues are regularly posted.
Legal action against the Institute The Adelaide Institute website, triggered the arrest of Fredrick Toben in Germany in April 1999. Toben was sentenced to 10 months in prison, but since he had already served seven months since his arrest, he was released upon payment of a $5000 bond.
It was also this website that drew the attention of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) in 2000. HREOC found that the Adelaide Institute had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by publishing material on the website, the consequences of which were 'vilificatory, bullying, insulting and offensive' to the Jewish population and ordered Toben to close the site and apologise to people he has offended. Because rulings of the HREOC are not enforceable at law, the case was also brought before the Federal Court of Australia, which ordered in 2002 that certain material be removed from the Adelaide Institute web site. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The Order of the Federal Court of Australia was that Adelaide Institute should remove from its website;
(iii) any other material which conveys the following imputations or any of them
(A) there is serious doubt that the Holocaust occurred;
(B) it is unlikely that there were homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz; Gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison A gas chamber is a means of execution whereby a poisonous gas is introduced into a hermetically sealed chamber. ...
(C) Jewish people who are offended by and challenge Holocaust denial are of limited intelligence; Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ...
(D) some Jewish people, for improper purposes, including financial gain, have exaggerated the number of Jews killed during World War II and the circumstances in which they were killed.
It has been noted by human rights organisations that the Institute has failed to fully comply with the order of the Federal Court of Australia and still publishes materials that it was ordered to rememove in the 2002 judgement. However so far no organisations have taken legal action against the institue since it is regarded as a somewhat inconsequencial organistaion.
Alleged associates of the Institute - Arthur Butz, American Holocaust revisionist and author of author of the book "The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry";
- Mark Weber, the current head of the Institute for Historical Review (IHR);
- David Thomas, member of the "Campaign to Decriminalize Holocaust History";
- Doug Collins, the first journalist to face a human rights complaint over four articles he wrote about the Holocaust and Jews, and who the called the Holocaust movie Schindler's List "Swindler's List";
- John Bennett, one of Australia's longest and most active Holocaust deniers, active in the Holocaust denial movement since the late 1970s;
- Jürgen Graf, as a Swiss citizen and author of several books about Holocaust Revisionism, Graf was prosecuted, along with his publisher, Gerhard Förster, for denying the gas chambers and the six million figure. In July 1998 a Swiss court sentenced him to 15 months imprisonment, and to pay a large fine, because of his revisionist writings.
- Robert Faurisson, France, Europe's leading Holocaust revisionist and known as the principal teacher of Ernst Zündel, German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times for publishing hate literature.
- Germar Rudolf, German Holocaust denier
- Robert L. Brock, an African-American anti-Semite, who prominently allies himself with white supremacists
- Ingrid Rimland, a Canadian Revisionist, who's writings are regarded in Canada as hate material
- Olga Scully, Tasmanien, who has faced legal proceedings for her distribution of Holocaust denial propaganda.
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The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is a leading Holocaust denial organization. ...
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Jürgen Graf (born August 15, 1951, Basel) is a Swiss holocaust-denier. ...
Robert Faurisson Robert Faurisson (born January 25, 1929) is a French holocaust-denier who generated controversy over various articles he published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, as well as various letters he has sent in to French newspapers (especially Le Monde) over the years which denied the...
Zündel Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (sometimes spelled Zundel or Zuendel) (born April 24, 1939 in Bad Wildbad) is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times for publishing hate literature. ...
Robert L. Brock, (also known as Ben Weintraub), is an African-American anti-Semite, who prominently allies himself with white supremacists. ...
Ingrid Rimland (born 1936) is a German-American neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier and the wife of Ernst Zündel. ...
See also The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...
Selection at the Auschwitz ramp in 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor or for medical experimentation, such as those of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. ...
Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ...
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External links - The Adelaide Institute Web Site
- Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission 2000 Media Releases
- Federal Court of Australia Toben v Jones (2002)
- Encyclopaedia of right-wing extremism
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