Germany’s infamous “Nazi Grandma,” 93-year-old German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck, has been sentenced a year in jail, after failing in her appeal to overturn guilty verdicts in two separate cases.
The Berlin district court upheld verdicts against Haverbeck – who was given her nickname by some German media outlets – on Friday, and sentenced her to a year in prison for incitement to hate. At issue were her statements denying the Holocaust at a public event in Berlin in 2017, as well as her related comments in an interview in 2020 disseminated online.
It is illegal in Germany to deny or trivialize the Holocaust or to glorify Nazi propaganda and philosophy.
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