Ursula Haverbeck, a 95-year-old German woman known as the “Nazi Grandma”, has been sentenced to a further 16 months in prison after her latest trial. Haverbeck, who has been jailed several times for denying the Holocaust, was once again convicted of denying the Nazi genocide on several occasions, including during the 2015 trial of a former Nazi camp guard.
The court's ruling took into account Haverbeck's previous convictions and his continued use of the proceedings as a platform to propagate his views. Throughout the trial, Haverbeck reiterated his denial of the Holocaust, prompting frequent interruptions from his supporters who were present at the proceedings.
Haverbeck, who ran a far-right training center that was shut down in 2008 for spreading Nazi propaganda, has been consistently jailed for denying the Nazi genocide. He has even publicly declared that “the Holocaust is the biggest and most sustained lie in history.”
The latest ruling comes after Haverbeck lost an appeal against a conviction over comments he allegedly made during the 2015 trial of former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening. Haverbeck had claimed that the Auschwitz concentration camp was only a labor camp and that there had been no mass killings, according to prosecutors.
The trial was delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and disease. The court also considered a previous conviction by a Berlin court in 2022 for statements made by Haverbeck in another interview and at an event. It remains unclear whether Haverbeck will actually serve his sentence.
In Germany, it is illegal to deny the genocide committed by Adolf Hitler's regime, which alone claimed 1.1 million lives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland. Holocaust denial and other forms of hate speech can lead to up to five years in prison, and the use of Nazi symbols such as swastikas is also prohibited.
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