Peter Hartung (born 1959) is the director of the

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Adelaide Institute The Adelaide Institute was a Holocaust denial group in Australia and is considered to be antisemitic by the Australian Human Rights Commission and others. The Adelaide Institute was formed in 1995 from the former Truth Mission that was establishe ...

having previously been a successful businessman and political adviser. He is a native of

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. Hartung assumed the role of director of the Adelaide Institute in 2009, following the incarceration of

Fredrick Töben Gerald Fredrick Töben, more commonly known as Fredrick Töben (2 June 1944 – 29 June 2020), was a German-born Australian citizen who was director and founder of the Adelaide Institute, a Holocaust denial group in Australia. He was the auth ...

for three months in

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for contempt of court. On assuming the role from Toben, Hartung defied the Federal Court by publishing the revisionist material that led to Toben’s three months jail time.

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