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Ursula Haverbeck: Holocaust denier in Berlin sentenced again to imprisonment

2020-12-05T18:43:16.275Z


Ursula Haverbeck has been denying the mass murder of European Jews for years, most recently serving a lengthy prison sentence. Now the 92-year-old has been convicted again - again for sedition.


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Ursula Haverbeck in court (in November): sentenced again

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The repeatedly convicted Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced to a custodial sentence again just a few weeks after her release from prison.

The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court imposed a one-year prison sentence on the 92-year-old.

The judge reasoned that she was again guilty of sedition.

The 92-year-old from North Rhine-Westphalia, who did not come to court to deliver the verdict, is charged with denying the Holocaust in an interview published on the Internet in March 2018.

Haverbeck had stated in the process that the allegations had been taken out of context or were false.

She was released from the prison in Bielefeld just a few weeks ago.

There Haverbeck had served a total of two and a half years in prison for sedition.

For years, criminal courts have had to deal with statements made by the elderly woman.

In 2004 she was first convicted of sedition and received a fine.

Most recently, prison sentences were given without parole.

The elderly woman repeatedly claimed that the Auschwitz concentration camp was not an extermination camp, but a labor camp.

In the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp alone, the Nazi regime murdered at least 1.1 million people.

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Source: spiegel

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