Adelaide Institute

The Adelaide Institute is the central association of Holocaust deniers in Australia . The institute, based in Adelaide, maintains close contacts with anti-Semitic , Holocaust-denying and right-wing extremists and international organizations.

organization

It was founded in 1994 by the German-born Fredrick Toben , who was director of the facility until 2009. Then Peter Hartung took over the management. The little institutionalized institution presumably had up to 250 members in the 1990s.

In 1998 the institute hosted a two-day congress with Holocaust deniers from all over the world, including Arthur Butz and Jürgen Graf , and live broadcasts of Robert Faurisson , Ahmed Rami , Charles Weber , Mark Weber and Ernst Zündel . The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates was also present.

In addition to its newsletter and the Adelaide Institute Online website, some of which have German-language content, it also operates a video portal that disseminates Holocaust-denying, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda . In addition, one finds glorification of the Nazi regime held and there are conspiracy theories on September 11 (see conspiracy theories about 9/11 ), for climate change and HIV / AIDS (see AIDS denial ) propagated.

There are close ties to other relevant organizations such as the Australian publisher Peace Books , which publishes Toben, and the California Institute for Historical Review . Toben also took part in the 2006 Holocaust Conference in Iran as a representative of the Adelaide Institute . As early as the 1990s, he made several guest lectures in Iran .

Legal proceedings

Basic judgment of the BGH

In November 1999, Toben, who saved his own revisionist content on Australian servers that can be accessed from the Adelaide Institute's homepage, was in the first instance by the Mannheim District Court in two cases of accusation of sedition under Section 130 (3) StGB (“Auschwitz- Lie ") acquitted, as it is an abstract endangering offense within the meaning of § 9 Paragraph 1 3rd Alt. StGB act. Raging was initially only sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for insulting in the act of disparaging the memory of the deceased and in another act of inciting hatred. With the appeal of the public prosecutor's office to the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), a landmark judgment was issued on December 12, 2000 in the decision of the 1st criminal division . According to this, for the first time Internet content published by foreigners outside the national territory, provided that it was available in Germany, was punishable under German law. Toben avoided a new hearing on his return trip to Australia.

Federal Court of Australia judgment

In 2002, the Federal Court of Australia tried on suspicion of violating Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act . The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) previously drew attention to holocaust-denying and anti-Semitic content. After the court decision, the Adelaide Institute was required to delete all racist content from its website . Raving resisted this, which is why he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in 2009.

literature

Yaman Akdeniz : Racism on the Internet . Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg 2009, ISBN 978-92-871-6634-0 , p. 70 ff.
Markus D. Dubber , Tatjana Hörnle : Criminal Law. A Comparative Approach . Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-958960-9 , New York 2014, pp. 621 ff.
Avner Falk : Anti-Semitism. A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred . Praeger, Westport 2008, ISBN 978-0-313-35384-0 , p. 99 f.
David Fraser: “On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Nazi”. Some Comparative Aspects of Holocaust Denial on the WWW . In: Ivan Hare , James Weinstein (Eds.): Extreme Speech and Democracy . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-960179-0 , pp. 511 ff.
Christian Mentel : Adelaide Institute (Australia) . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24078-2 , p. 4 f.
Klaus Parker: And the law does apply. Also on the internet . Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch (Ed.): Right-wing networks - a danger . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , p. 254 ff.
Danny Ben-Moshe : Holocaust Denial "Down Under" . In: Robert S. Wistrich : Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028814-8 , p. 157 ff.

Legal notice

The website of the Adelaide Institute is not linked in the German language Wikipedia for legal reasons.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Christian Mentel : Adelaide Institute (Australia) . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements . Berlin 2012, p. 4 f.
^ Danny Ben-Moshe : Holocaust Denial "Down Under" . In: Robert S. Wistrich : Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028814-8 , p. 170.
^ Danny Ben-Moshe : Holocaust Denial "Down Under" . In: Robert S. Wistrich : Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028814-8 , p. 171.
↑ Klaus Parker: And the law still works. Also on the internet . Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch (Ed.): Right-wing networks - a danger . Wiesbaden 2004, p. 254 ff.
^ David Fraser: "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Nazi". Some Comparative Aspects of Holocaust Denial on the WWW . In: Ivan Hare , James Weinstein (Eds.): Extreme Speech and Democracy . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-960179-0 , p. 534.

[Mentel-1] Christian Mentel : Adelaide Institute (Australia) . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements . Berlin 2012, p. 4 f.

[2] Danny Ben-Moshe : Holocaust Denial "Down Under" . In: Robert S. Wistrich : Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028814-8 , p. 170.

[3] Danny Ben-Moshe : Holocaust Denial "Down Under" . In: Robert S. Wistrich : Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028814-8 , p. 171.

[4] Klaus Parker: And the law still works. Also on the internet . Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch (Ed.): Right-wing networks - a danger . Wiesbaden 2004, p. 254 ff.

[5] David Fraser: "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Nazi". Some Comparative Aspects of Holocaust Denial on the WWW . In: Ivan Hare , James Weinstein (Eds.): Extreme Speech and Democracy . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-960179-0 , p. 534.