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A woman who has been repeatedly jailed for denying that the Holocaust happened was found guilty of hate speech again on Friday.
Ursula Haverbeck, who was sentenced by a district court in Berlin, was found guilty only a few weeks after she was released from prison on similar charges.
The court had sentenced Haverbeck to one year in jail for denying the Holocaust as historical fact, in a 2018 interview published online.
The 92-year-old said the comments were wrong or taken out of context.
Haverbeck, known for repeatedly and publicly denying the Holocaust, was released from prison only a few weeks ago after completing a sentence of two and a half years, also for hate speech.
She has repeatedly been charged with similar offences, the first time in 2004.
Haverbeck claims that the Auschwitz concentration camp was merely a work camp.
Historians estimate that some 1.1 million people were killed under the Nazi regime in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp alone.(dpa/NAN)
– Dec. 4, 2020 @ 16:53 GMT |
Tags: Court sentences Holocaust denial again for hate speech in Germany
