Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Chapter 11
OBSERVERS IN COURT
It is still not compulsory to believe in the Holocaust – not yet!
Outside Court 1 two plain clothed Federal Police Officers waited for me, and
I appreciate how this arrest is done in a civilised way with no handcuffing
because like the proverbial lamb I go quietly to the slaughter. Even the judge
in my German case in 1999 ordered prison and police authorities I not be
handcuffed while being transported from prison to court. What a weakling I
am – no fear of flight; but that’s because the world is my prison and where
could I hide? In any case, I have always been above board and transparent
and now at 65 to get into the mystery mongering and secrecy lifestyle would
be a burdensome worry with which I could not be bothered.
I still see the friends sitting in court all day watching the procedure, with the
barristers at the bar table and my sitting at the solicitors’ table on a swivel
chair, on which I occasionally swing around to face the individuals in the
public gallery, most of whom knew what the outcome would be and
therefore could only hope and pray for the best outcome.
There before me I saw Mohammed Hegazi, a teaching colleague from my
days with the Victorian Education department from which in January 1985
I was dismissed on the grounds of incompetence and disobedience.
Mohammed, likewise, had problems with principals and individual teachers
who pushed Jewish matters into the curriculum, especially matters
pertaining to the Holocaust, something we instinctively resisted, not to
mention matters Israel and hatred towards Palestinians and Germans! I
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