A university official in New Zealand apologized for allowing a German student to work toward a graduate degree while publishing material denying the Holocaust on the Internet. Joachim Kupka was accepted to a graduate program at New Zealand’s Waikato University in 1999. In June 2000, following exposure of his Internet and chat room activities, Kupka fled New Zealand and is believed to be back in Germany.
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