The notorious German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck, a well-known figure on the extremist far-right fringes of German politics who was repeatedly convicted in court for her comments, is dead. She was 96 years old.
Her attorney, Wolfram Nahrath, confirmed to dpa that she died on Wednesday.
At the time of her death, Haverbeck was appealing her most recent conviction for incitement to hatred for her comments denying the genocidal crimes of Germany’s Nazi regime during World War II.
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A court in Hamburg sentenced her to 16 months in prison, but her lawyer had filed an appeal against the verdict.
She previously served two years in prison for Holocaust denial, and had also been convicted and fined by German courts dating back to 2004.
Haverbeck repeatedly claimed, including a television interview and in courtrooms, that the Auschwitz concentration camp was not an extermination camp and that mass murder did not take place there.
According to estimates by historians and German government records, the Nazis murdered at least 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex alone.
The prosecutions helped propel Haverbeck to notoriety in Germany’s neo-Nazi scene, and she ran for the European Parliament in 2019 as the top candidate for the neo-Nazi extremist party Die Rechte (“The Right”).
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