Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck is dead: media reports

Vlotho (North Rhine-Westphalia) – The notorious Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck (96) apparently died on Wednesday.

This is reported unanimously by the news channel “n-tv” and the online portal “t-online”. Both refer to corresponding messages from the right-wing extremist scene on “X” (formerly Twitter).

Below is a post from the chairman of the right-wing extremist party “Die Heimat” Frank Franz (45): “We found out about her death today from her lawyer.”

There is currently no official confirmation from the family or Haverbeck’s lawyer.

Abstruser Märtyer-Status

Ursula Haverbeck had achieved an absurd martyr status in neo-Nazi circles over the years because until the end she had publicly denied the murder of millions of Jews during the tyranny of Adolf Hitler.

For this she had to go to court several times and was sentenced to fines and imprisonment.

Most recently in June of this year. The judge imposed a sentence for sedition Prison sentence of one year and four months without parole. Haverbeck was supposed to serve it in Bielefeld-Senne prison.

Mass destruction denied

According to the prosecution, Haverbeck told journalists on April 21, 2015, on the sidelines of the Lüneburg trial against former SS man Oskar Gröning († 96), that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, but a labor camp. In an NDR television interview, she denied that there was any mass extermination of people there.

At that time she was from District Court Hamburg was sentenced to ten months in prison without parole and appealed. Because of Corona, this was not negotiated until 2024.

Haverbeck remained at large until her death Dispute over their liability – although the justice system offered a cell on the ground floor so that she didn’t have to climb stairs.