Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

David’s numerous presentations of the story is of interest because he shows
how Spielberg lies about the actual storyline. As David says, in the film
version Spielberg pulls out all stops, and then some more, to ensure the
film will one day be regarded as a factual account of what happened. Hence
its production in black and white, which makes it quite authentic, and even
a documentary of sorts.
This naturally angered David who, like any normal person, wants the truth
to be told about this whole matter. Both Keneally and Spielberg did not
mention the role played by David’s father and this among other historical
fabrications annoyed David. It was when the Advertiser in 1994 featured
David on its front page holding his father’s Bundesverdienstkreuz medal
and a note about the Brockschmidt family having been declared ‘righteous
Gentiles’ and having a tree planted in the Avenue of Honour in Jerusalem,
that I made contact with him. We met at the cinema where the film was
screening and where David was handing out leaflets exposing Spielberg’s
distortion of historical facts.
We met again at an event for which David had been invited by the
University of Adelaide’s Catholic Club to be the speaker. A week after the
invitation he was advised that the discussion would involve a Holocaust
survivor, Fred Steiner, whom David knew quite well. Steiner had belonged
to the right-wing Zionists while in Palestine. Then another letter arrived
informing David that Dr Paul Bartrop and Steiner would discuss
Schindler’s List. David had been dis-invited.
Together with Christopher Steele we all went along to the talk and revealed
to the audience of about 50 students what nonsense and distortions were to
be found in the film. I asked Steiner if he saw the gas chambers at
Auschwitz. He replied, ‘No, but I could smell them’.
After that we decided that we should follow the example set by Dr Gerard
Henderson of The Sydney Institute, a so-called right-wing think-tank that
believed in the Holocaust and is obedient to Australia’s Zionist wishes. We
re-badged Truth-Missions, our organisation of loose-affiliates of likeminded
individuals, and adopted the Adelaide Institute title. Our 250
supporters liked what we were on about – but they also kept us on our toes
and in typical German fashion, of which I still have some inkling despite
being exposed to the Australian ethos for 55 years. We began to deliver the
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