Ursula Haverbeck, German far-right activist repeatedly convicted for Holocaust denial, dies at 96

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Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

She claimed Auschwitz was just a work camp, not a death camp, and that nobody had been gassed to death there. She challenged a German court to prove that the Nazis committed mass murder, and declared on TV that the Holocaust was “the biggest and most sustainable lie in history.” She spent years in prison, as an elderly widow, for lying about the Holocaust, and was deemed the “Nazi grandma” by German media. On Wednesday, Ursula Haverbeck, one of …

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German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck has died at the age of 96. She has been convicted several times over the past twenty years for denying the persecution of Jews during World War II.

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According to right-wing extremist circles, Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck, who had a multiple criminal record, has died at the age of 96.

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“You are not spreading knowledge, you are spreading poison,” the judge said at one of her convictions for Holocaust denial.

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For decades, Ursula Haverbeck publicly denied the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews. She was therefore often in court. The notorious Holocaust denier has now died at the age of 96.

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It once brought together nationalists and left-wing ecosystems. She later became famous as a Holocaust denier. Ursula Haverbeck has now died. more...