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Ursula Haverbeck (11/17/2020): One year imprisonment
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The notorious Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to one year in prison by the Berlin district court in an appeal process.
The 93-year-old defendant denied and denied the Holocaust, the court justified the verdict.
"You are not a Holocaust researcher, you are a Holocaust denier," said the presiding judge in her verdict.
Haverbeck was "miles away from the historical truth" and damaged the memories of millions of those who were murdered.
The process was about Haverbeck's appeals against two previous prison sentences for incitement to hatred from the years 2017 and 2020. Both procedures were combined at the regional court into an appeal process.
Haverbeck was sentenced to six months in prison by the Tiergarten district court in 2017 because she had repeatedly denied the Holocaust at a public event in a Berlin restaurant the year before.
In 2020, the court sentenced Haverbeck to one year in prison because she also denied the Holocaust in an interview published on the Internet in 2018.
The 93-year-old has already been sentenced several times in Germany and was imprisoned in Bielefeld for two and a half years between 2018 and 2020.
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