Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

The Institute’s print and electronic newsletter brings together the
obsessions, thoughts and concerns of a number of internationally
disreputable Jew bashers, as well as allowing Toben and his mates to have
a platform. ‘History’ doesn’t enter the equation.
The usual suspects have been out in force trying to garner sympathy for
Toben. His Adelaide Institute ‘associate’, David Brockschmidt, made the
extraordinary claim that there is nothing antisemitic about Toben’s work,
perhaps relying on the laziness of the public who only need to go to the
website to find the evidence.
John Bennett, perhaps hoping that enough journalists were unfamiliar of the
history of the founding of his insignificant little club, the Australian Civil
Liberties Union, perhaps confusing it with a mainstream civil liberties
organisation, emerged as a ‘legal adviser’ for the incarcerated propagandist.
Englishman David Irving, Canadian Ernst Zundel and others immediately
took up the case, with One Nation webmaster Scott Balson providing
those visiting his website with direct lifts of Adelaide Institute material, not
balanced by a word of intelligent commentary.
As mentioned earlier, Fredrick Toben describes himself as a philosopher.
According to Penny Debelle in the Sydney Morning Herald, his current
contribution to Australian society is through one day’s employment during
the whole of 1998 as a temporary relief teacher, with not even that much
work this year. His major contributions to international antisemitism
during the same time period has been the broadcast of offensive and
insulting anti-Jewish material on his website and his hosting, in August last
year, of a ‘seminar’ focusing on the promotion of distortions of history,
which brought together many of the most notorious purveyors of anti-
Jewish prejudice on this planet.
Toben himself has provided ample testimony that claims by his
supporters, that he could be in any way unaware of the likelihood of his
arrest in Germany, are totally disingenuous. Not only has he published a
great deal of material in which he has expressed his objection to the
German law, designed to stop the rehabilitation of the most evil regime
the world has ever known, but he published a ‘Travel Diary’ prior to
leaving for Germany which opened with the sentence from the Wimmera
Mail Times, ‘Controversial Goroke identity Dr Fredrick Toben flies to
Europe today to challenge the German ban on denying the Nazi genocide
of Jews.’
The last item on the ‘Travel Diary’ of 21 March 1999 was ‘Next missive
from Germany ... wish me luck’. The active promotion of racism has the
effect of diminishing the quality of life of members of the target group and
of creating social divisions to supplement personal guilt. If Fredrick Toben
is ‘unlucky’ in Germany, it will only be because he has received a fair trial.
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