‘Nazi Grandma’ sent to jail again for Holocaust denial

Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel, 87, has been condemned by a district justice in Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, to 11 months seizure but parole, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.

Haverbeck-Wetzel was convicted for a crime of incitement of loathing for denying a Holocaust in a minute she sent to a Central Council of Jews in Germany, as good as on her website.

In Germany, a crime of incitement of loathing refers to actions that inspire loathing or assault towards a organisation of people since of their religion, competition or racial background. It also punishes any individual, who publicly “approves of, denies or downplays” a actions of a Nazis that disregarded general law, by adult to 5 years in prison.

More than 1 million people were killed during Auschwitz by gas chambers, starvation or medical experiments, and many were European Jews.

Haverbeck-Wetzel was sentenced to 10 months in prison last Nov for incitement of loathing after she went on radio to announce that “the Holocaust is a biggest and many tolerable distortion in history”.

A justice in Detmold, North-Rhine Westphalia, also recently condemned her to 8 months in jail for her Holocaust rejection – that she has appealed – and a serve box is ongoing in Verden, outward Bremen.

Haverbeck-Wetzel is good famous among far-right groups, carrying been a member of dual groups criminialized in 2010 for their nonconformist views: a “Collegiums Humanum”, of that she was chair, and an organisation she helped found to assistance people who were “persecuted” for denying a Holocaust.

Article source: https://www.thelocal.de/20161012/87-year-old-holocaust-denier-sentenced-nazis