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Holocaust denier detained at London's Heathrow airport
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Holocaust denial, Israel News 

German-born Australian national Dr. Gerald Fredrick Toben, 64, was detained at London's Heathrow Airport by the London police extradition unit using an EU arrest warrant issued by German authorities, the United Kingdom's Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday.

The founder of the Adelaide Institute, a publication that questions the Holocaust, Toben is accused of publishing material on the internet "of an anti-Semitic and/or revisionist nature" that "denies, approves of or plays down the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis".

The arrest warrant alleges that Dr Toben committed the offence in Australia, Germany and other countries.
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In a disclaimer on his website, Dr Toben writes of his work: "If you wish to begin to doubt the Holocaust-Shoah narrative, you must be prepared for personal sacrifice, must be prepared for marriage and family break-up, loss of career, and go to prison."

"This is because Revisionists are, among other things, dismantling a massive multi-billion dollar industry that the Holocaust-Shoah enforcers are defending, as well as the survival of Zionist-racist Israel."

In the past Toben has denied that he said the Holocaust was a "lie". He has previously been convicted in Germany of inciting racial hatred.
In 2006, he was among a group of Holocaust academics who attended two-day "Review of the Holocaust: global vision" conference organised by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who caused international outrage by describing the Holocaust as a "myth".

He is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London.

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      1.   Some people deny the existence 19:35  |  Joe 01/10/08
      2.   Holocaust Revisionism Is A Business 19:52  |  Yosemite 01/10/08
      3.   International Thought Control 21:09  |  David 01/10/08
      4.   Free Speech 21:20  |  Jonathan 01/10/08
      5.   Post #1 22:23  |  Elias 01/10/08
      6.   Like the Cartoon of the prophet 22:31  |  Slappy 01/10/08
      7.   well well well 22:43  |  northern neighbor 01/10/08
      8.   #5 Elias 23:04  |  Boycott 01/10/08
      9.   Töben the liar 23:12  |  Mike 01/10/08
      10.   #3 - Scientific enquiry? The facts are known and indisputable! 23:33  |  redmike 01/10/08
      11.   #4 - well said, but libel is illegal in the US. 23:44  |  redmike 01/10/08
      12.   LIES become TRUTHS 01:47  |  joe 02/10/08
      13.   Well, Joe, It Has Something To Do With 6 Million Murders 01:50  |  Tex 02/10/08
      14.   Boycoot 01:53  |  Tex 02/10/08
      15.   Holocaust 02:45  |  John 02/10/08
      16.   How is it? Part 2 02:48  |  EastEuropeanSpaniard 02/10/08
      17.   redmike # 11 what does your post have to do with the issue. 03:23  |  American in NY 02/10/08
      18.   Tex, # 14 it leads you to believe? no ambiguity with others 03:29  |  American in NY 02/10/08
      19.   tex 04:02  |  potobac 02/10/08
      20.   numbers 05:00  |  KT 02/10/08
      21.   #15 05:35  |  Rab Burns 02/10/08
      22.   American in NY 05:46  |  Murray of Montreal 02/10/08
      23.   To AiNY (#17) 06:13  |  Morris Valentine 02/10/08
      24.   Why is it such characters and news is only found on Jewish sites? 06:39  |  Joe 02/10/08
      25.   to all Holocaust deniers 06:56  |  judith 02/10/08
      26.   To M. Valentine # 27 07:19  |  Barry 02/10/08
      27.   Morris Valentine - beautifully put 08:14  |  JR 02/10/08
      28.   If it is ALL TRUE, why have my posts not appeared? 09:17  |  PADDY 02/10/08
      29.   AM in NY.It hapenned in Europe.Europe does not want the lessons 09:23  |  PETER SM 02/10/08
      30.   JOHN the free world had a libel trial initiated by Irving 09:29  |  PETER SM 02/10/08
      31.   a crime?? 09:32  |  Sameer 02/10/08
      32.   Hear what the Director of the Auschwitz Museum had to say. 09:32  |  PADDY 02/10/08
      33.   to judith # 25 09:48  |  Sameer 02/10/08
      34.   #28 Paddy 10:37  |  Rab Burns 02/10/08
      35.   free speech and deception 11:25  |  just me 02/10/08
      36.   another take 11:28  |  just me 02/10/08
      37.   Memory 11:49  |  Betari 02/10/08
      38.   So some agrue it didn`t happen, we have proof otherwise. 12:19  |  petra 02/10/08
      39.   #34 Rab Burns - Is THAT the best you can offer? 12:24  |  PADDY 02/10/08
      40.   Australian Government Should Revoke Toben`s Citizenship 12:58  |  Michael J 02/10/08
      41.   Morris Valentine 14:40  |  American in NY 02/10/08
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