Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Nine years earlier, after Commissioner Kath McEvoy handed down her
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commisison decision, ABC-TV was
again on the ball. The current matter was then in its infancy but on its
inexorable conclusion.
Anti-Semitism hits the Web, ABC TV 7.30 Report, 11 October 2000
MAXINE McKEW: The World Wide Web has often been described as
a free market for ideas and information, but according to the Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, cyberspace is no place for
material claiming that say the Holocaust is a myth. On 5 October 2000 the
commission made an unprecedented order for the removal of a website --
created by a group calling itself the Adelaide Institute, because it breached
the Racial Discrimination Act by posting material offensive to Jews. The
man behind the website, former school teacher Fredrick Toben, has
previously been jailed in Germany for breaching their laws. Now, he’s
refusing to comply with the commission’s finding -- a move likely to see
the case tested in the Federal Court. Mike Sexton reports.
JEREMY JONES, EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN
JEWRY: They are saying that if you are a Holocaust survivor or if you
have relatives who perished during the Nazi Holocaust, no matter how
close, they say that you are lying about what happened to your loved one
for some material gain. So they are sticking the dagger in twice.
DR FREDRICK TOBEN, ADELAIDE INSTITUTE: If we’re in a
democracy, then we must have the ability to have opposing points of view
openly aired, even if it’s hurtful and somewhat offensive.
MIKE SEXTON: Fredrick Toben, a retired high school English teacher
and amateur historian, has created a small piece of history himself. He’s
the first person in Australia to be ordered to remove an Internet website
because it was based on racial hatred.
ADELAIDE INSTITUTE VIDEO: This second door, you can see it’s
supposed to be gas tight. That is the problem.
MIKE SEXTON: Like controversial British historian David Irving,
Fredrick Toben and the handful of members of his Adelaide Institute
argued there was no systematic execution of Jews in the Second World
War.
DR FREDRICK TOBEN: Hundreds of thousands died, Jewish and non-
Jewish people, it’s not in dispute because that’s documented. What isn’t
documented is the terrible allegation that the Germans systematically
exterminated European Jewry in homicidal gas chambers.
JEREMY JONES: More has been written about the Nazi Holocaust than
any other period of world history. There is more academic debate taking
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