German Woman Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison for ‘Holocaust Denial’

 photo haverbeckursula_zpsz0lieckd.jpgHamburg District Court, Nov. 11, 2015 — 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to imprisonment in Germany for doubting that people were “exterminated” by “gassing” in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.

The defendant, in good spirits, reiterated her doubts in the courtroom. She arrived without a lawyer, and defended herself. Some fifty of her supporters crowded the courtroom and the hall outside.

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I put up a couple of posts on Ms. Havebeck this past summer which included a video of her interview with the German TV program “Panorama,” the interview that got her arrested.

See:

German Woman Defies Holocaust Denial Laws in TV Interview

German Police Storm Home of Ursula Haverbeck

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