Ursula Haverbeck repeated her remarks about the Holocaust several times at the trial.
Hamburg:
A notorious German pensioner known as the “Nazi grandmother”, who was jailed several times for denying the Holocaust, was sentenced to an additional 16 months at her latest trial on Wednesday.
A Hamburg court convicted Ursula Haverbeck, 95, of denying the Nazi genocide on several occasions, including in 2015 during the trial of a former Nazi camp guard.
In sentencing, the judges took into account her previous convictions and the fact that she “also used the process to further publicize her views”, a court spokeswoman told AFP.
Haverbeck repeated his remarks about the Holocaust several times at the trial.
Supporters of the retiree showed up on Wednesday and repeatedly interrupted the proceedings with protests, the spokeswoman said.
Haverbeck was once head of a far-right training center closed in 2008 for spreading Nazi propaganda.
She has been sentenced to prison on several occasions for denying the Nazi genocide, once declaring on television that “the Holocaust is the biggest and most sustained lie in history.”
Haverbeck was convicted this time after losing an appeal over a conviction for comments allegedly made in 2015 during the trial of former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening, who was convicted of being an accessory to murder.
Haverbeck said the Auschwitz concentration camp was just a labor camp and that no mass murders occurred there, according to prosecutors.
The process has been postponed several times due to the pandemic and coronavirus disease.
The sentence also takes into account a previous conviction by a Berlin court in 2022 due to statements made by Haverbeck in another interview and at an event.
It was unclear whether she would actually go to prison.
German law makes it illegal to deny the genocide committed by Adolf Hitler’s regime, which in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp alone, in occupied Poland, claimed around 1.1 million lives, most of them European Jews.
Holocaust denial and other forms of hate speech carry up to five years in prison, while the use of Nazi symbols such as swastikas is also prohibited.
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