Germany’s best-known Holocaust denier is apparently dead. The news first made the rounds in Nazi forums.
The well-known Holocaust denier Ursual Haverbeck is dead. This is reported by the news portal t-online, among others. The news of the 96-year-old’s death was first spread on social media channels of the right-wing extremist scene in Germany. Accordingly, Haverbeck is said to have died on Wednesday. There is no official confirmation or statement from the family yet.
Only the small party “The Right” reported Haverbeck’s death on Wednesday evening. Haverbeck ran for them in the European elections five years ago. The well-known neo-Nazi Michael Brück, former chairman of the party, also published a statement of condolence with a shared photo from that time.
Ursula Haverbeck: “Figurehead” of the right-wing scene
Ursula Haverbeck, widow of a former employee of the NSDAP Reich leadership, had become something of a symbolic figure in the Nazi scene in recent years. She had been convicted several times and was in prison.
The notorious Holocaust denier was recently sentenced by the Hamburg Regional Court to a prison sentence of one year and four months without parole for incitement to hatred. The court thus confirmed a prison sentence that the Hamburg district court had imposed almost nine years ago. In 2018 she went to the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe to face a prison sentence – but her lawsuit failed there. She was in prison from May 2018 to November 2020.
Holocaust-Leugnerin Ursula Haverbeck
Haverbeck had repeatedly claimed that the German concentration camp Auschwitz in occupied Poland was not an extermination camp but a labor camp. In several articles she wrote that the mass murder of people of Jewish faith in the gas chambers could not have happened like that.
The news of her death also made the rounds in the international Nazi scene. Condolences on social networks come from France, Hungary and Portugal, among others.
Only the small party “The Right” reported Haverbeck’s death on Wednesday evening. Haverbeck ran for them in the European elections five years ago. The well-known neo-Nazi Michael Brück, former chairman of the party, also published a statement of condolence with a shared photo from that time.
Ursula Haverbeck: “Figurehead” of the right-wing scene
Ursula Haverbeck, widow of a former employee of the NSDAP Reich leadership, had become something of a symbolic figure in the Nazi scene in recent years. She had been convicted several times and was in prison.
The notorious Holocaust denier was recently sentenced by the Hamburg Regional Court to a prison sentence of one year and four months without parole for incitement to hatred. The court thus confirmed a prison sentence that the Hamburg district court had imposed almost nine years ago. In 2018 she went to the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe to face a prison sentence – but her lawsuit failed there. She was in prison from May 2018 to November 2020.
Holocaust-Leugnerin Ursula Haverbeck
Haverbeck had repeatedly claimed that the German concentration camp Auschwitz in occupied Poland was not an extermination camp but a labor camp. In several articles she wrote that the mass murder of people of Jewish faith in the gas chambers could not have happened like that.
The news of her death also made the rounds in the international Nazi scene. Condolences on social networks come from France, Hungary and Portugal, among others.
