The Holocaust revisionist, Fredrick Toben, is to appeal a three month jail sentence for refusing to remove material that vilifies Jews and denies the Holocaust from his Web site. The German-born founder of the Adelaide Institute was recently found guilty on 24 counts of contempt by the Federal Court for defying a 2002 court order preventing him from publishing offensive material, including doubting the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and alleging that Jews are of "limited intelligence." The appeal is scheduled to take palce on 13 August. The long-running case against Toben began in 1996, when Jeremy Jones, a former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, first filed a complaint alleging Toben had published anti-Semitic material on his Web site.
Meanwhile, Toben's successor at the Adelaide Institute, Peter Hartung, is continuing to publish revisionist material. A current website article claims that "The 'gas chambers of Auschwitz' and the 'extermination of the Jews' began as wartime propaganda, for the reasons of 'proving' to the world how evil the German National Socialist system of government was, and to deflect from the real war crimes of WWII, including the mass firebombing of German cities, whose targets were defenseless women and children." An attorney for Mr. Jones has asked the court to consider also taking action against Hartung.
