Something very interesting is happening in Australia from
a legal point of view. Adelaide Institute, with its own Revisionist website,
seems to be challenging the Holocaust Promotion Lobby for a tighter definition
of just WHAT they promote: racial aims or religious dogma.
Here is press release:
Press Release 15 October 1996
"Dr. Fredrick Toben has rejected the complaint against Adelaide Institute's
Internet site by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry on grounds that
the word Jewish is a religious category.
This means that Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act (1975) does
not apply and so Adelaide Institute has no case to answer.
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner now has to decide whether
to pursue the matter further through legal means.
"We are aware of the fact that elsewhere in the world attempts have
been made, some of them successful, to enshrine the Jewish concept as a
racial or ethnic category and we view the current complaint against us as
such an attempt. We would oppose such categorisation because it is intellectually
dishonest to do so," said Dr. Toben last night.
He strongly rejected the implication contained in the ECAJ allegations that
Adelaide Institute's work was not of a serious nature.
He said that his work "is of fundamental importance because without
looking into the allegation that Germans exterminated European Jewry in
homicidal gas chambers, we cannot make any sense of post World War II history.
Contrary to popular belief, the existence of homicidal gas chambers has
to this day not been proven, let alone been made the subject of extensive
forensic investigations."
He claimed that such forensic investigation is urgently needed at Auschwitz
before the camp site deteriorates either through further influx of tourists
or through weathering.
Dr. Toben also said that he is aware of the fact that by pressing for such
an investigation, he is questioning the validity of the premise upon which
our view of Germany's role during World War II rests.
"I am not prepared to accept the allegations that my father's generation
was responsible for the creation of homicidal gas chambers without first
looking at all the material facts of such an allegation."
He said, "Surely, if someone accuses the Germans of such a hideous
crime, the first thing to do is to look at the murder weapon. In Germany
you receive a five-year jail term if you dare question the premise of the
whole Holocaust story."
"Asking questions about the homicidal gas chambers is not a denial
of the Holocaust," he claimed. "In any case," he said, "the
fire storm that engulfed Dresden and Hamburg were real Holocausts for which
extensive material evidence was available. And yet for the homicidal gas
chamber story there is just no material evidence available which would prove
that it happened. Why not?"
Dr. Toben hoped that more people would have the courage to speak out and
openly discuss the allegations that Germans exterminated European Jewry
in specially constructed homicidal gas chambers. Industrial chemists and
forensic experts would soon come to the conclusion reached by young German
industrial chemist, Germar Rudolf, who claimed it was a physical and technical
impossibility to gas millions of people.
He said that opposition to the visit of British historian, David Irving,
must be seen in the larger context of world history and in particular how
his views impact on the taboo topic of the Jewish-Nazi Holocaust.
"I call on Mr. Howard and Mr. Ruddock to free themselves from the pressures
put on them by the ECAJ and other individuals who want to prevent British
historian David Irving from coming to Australia. Why are Irving's opponents
frightened to debate him in open forum? I know why because I have personally
met a number of them. They cannot refute his arguments and this has consequences
for Irving's opponents. They will have to admit that their whole historical
research is based upon a false premise, namely that Germans planned, built
and used these huge chemical slaughter houses which we call homicidal gas
chambers. Let's put it to the test."
He said that the media had a vital role to play in opening up this debate
because it is in every journalist's self-interest to have free speech in
Australia."
(End of press release)
Thought for the Day:
"Life is a series of collisions with the future. It is not a sum of
what we have been but what we yearn to be."