Holocaust denier dead at 76
Dr Toben’s loss of life was verified on the internet site of the Adelaide Institute – a holocaust denial team he established in 1995.
“After suffering a grave disease for the previous handful of months he is at peace,” the internet site suggests.
“He will be remembered by his good friends and supporters as a gentleman with an inquiring intellect who was not content to stand idly by and allow for the countless vilification and false accusations from his beloved German folks.”
German-born Dr Toben emigrated to Australia with his family in 1954 at the age of 10.
Included in a amount of controversies and court docket actions in excess of the a long time, Dr Toben served three jail sentences in Germany, the Uk and Adelaide.
In 2009, he was observed guilty of 24 counts of contempt of court docket soon after breaching Federal Court docket orders to end publishing articles implying Jewish folks offended by Holocaust denial had been of “limited intelligence”.
He served a three-thirty day period jail sentence in Adelaide.
Dr Toben died on Monday aged 76.