Ursula Haverbeck
Ursula Hedwig Meta Haverbeck-Wetzel (née Wetzel; 8 November 1928 – 20 November 2024) was a German neo-nazi activist and Holocaust denier.[1][2] Until her death, she was sued and convicted many times for Holocaust denial, which is a crime in Germany. She was born in Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany. She was nicknamed "Nazi Grandma" by the German media.[3]
In November 2015, at the age of 87, she was sentenced to ten months in prison for Holocaust denial.[4] On 7 May 2018, she began to serve her latest two-year jail sentence after being picked up at her home by German police.[5][6][7] She was released from a prison at the end of 2020 and was charged again. In March 2022, she was sentenced to one year in prison.[8][9] She was again convicted on 26 June 2024 and sentenced to an another 16 months in jail.[3]
Haverbeck died on 20 November 2024, at the age of 96.[10]
References
change- ↑ Braun, Stephan; Geisler, Alexander; Gerster, Martin (2009). Strategien der extremen Rechten; Hintergründe – Analysen – Antworten [Strategies of the extreme Right; Backgrounds - Analysis - Answers] (in German). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. pp. 250–251, 427–429. ISBN 9783531159119.
- ↑ Niedersächsische Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012 [Lower Saxony Protection of the Constitution Report 2012] (PDF) (in German), Hannover: Niedersächsische Ministerium für Inneres und Sport (Lower Saxony Ministry of Interior and Sport), 2012, pp. 87, 102, 105, 107, retrieved 1 August 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Associated Foreign Press (June 26, 2024). "'Nazi grandma' convicted again of Holocaust denial in Germany". Retrieved June 26, 2024.
- ↑ URSULA HAVERBECK 10 Monate Knast für Holocaust-Leugnerin (87) Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine dated 12 November 2015 at mopo.de, accessed 12 November 2015
- ↑ "Handelsblatt explains: How Germany Combats Far-Right Extremism". Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ↑ "Haverbeck demnächst in Detmold vor Gericht". 27 September 2017.
- ↑ The Washington Post
- ↑ Michael Klarmann, Holocaust-Leugnerin Haverbeck erneut vor Gericht, endstation-rechts.de, 21 February 2022, accessed 15 March 2022
- ↑ "Germany: 93-year-old Holocaust denier sent back to jail – DW – 04/01/2022". dw.com. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ↑ "Neonazi-Szene meldet Tod von Holocaust-Leugnerin Haverbeck".
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