Adelaide Institute

The Adelaide Institute was a Holocaust denial group[1] in Australia and is considered to be antisemitic by the Australian Human Rights Commission[2] and others.[citation needed] The Adelaide Institute was formed in 1995 from the former Truth Mission that was established in 1994 by Fredrick Töben, later a convicted Holocaust denier. Töben directed the Institute until his incarceration in 2009 in South Australia for contempt of court. Peter Hartung assumed the role of director of the Adelaide Institute. On assuming the role from Töben, Hartung defied the Federal Court by publishing the revisionist material that led to Töben's three months jail time.[3] In June 2009, the Adelaide Institute was linked with an American white supremacist, James von Brunn, charged with killing a security guard in Washington's Holocaust Museum.[4]

Töben and his associates at the Adelaide Institute have denied "being Holocaust deniers" in interviews conducted by Australian media, claiming they cannot deny that which never happened.[5] The Institute's stated goal is to restore the honor of Nazism by convincing readers that the Holocaust is a Jewish lie, but the site stopped updating after Toben's sudden death in 2020, and is now officially defunct.

  1. ^ Towell, Noel (21 December 2013). "Holocaust denialists back calls for reform of Australia's race hate laws". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  2. ^ "HREOC media release:". Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2008.
  3. ^ Akerman, Pia (2 June 2009). "Holocaust denier Peter Hartung in defiance of court". The Australian. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  4. ^ Adelaide Institute's online link to white supremacist gunman
  5. ^ Sexton, Mike (20 April 1999). "Australian historian faces German jail over Holocaust views". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2017.