The ‘Nazi grandma’ who married an SS official and has spent decades denying the Holocaust was locked up just months after she was released.
Ursula Haverbeck, 93, has been jailed three times in the past five years for Holocaust denial, a criminal offence in Germany.
Haverbeck was locked up in 2017 and again late 2020, with a Berlin judge convicting her once again on Friday after she again denied the Holocaust in public.
The judge rejected her appeals to convert her prison term to fines on the grounds that she has shown no remorse, nor any sign of changing her views.
He said: ‘You’re not a Holocaust researcher, you’re a Holocaust denier and it’s not knowledge you’re spreading, it’s poison.’
‘There’s nothing that will stop you. We won’t have any impact on you with words.’
Haverbeck failed to turn up to prison in Verden, western Germany in May 2018, prompting a week-long police hunt.
The judge rejected her appeals to convert her prison term to fines on the grounds that she has shown no remorse, nor any sign of changing her views.
He said: ‘You’re not a Holocaust researcher, you’re a Holocaust denier and it’s not knowledge you’re spreading, it’s poison.’
‘There’s nothing that will stop you. We won’t have any impact on you with words.’
Haverbeck failed to turn up to prison in Verden, western Germany in May 2018, prompting a week-long police hunt.
