Prominent German neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial

[mick silver]

BERLIN (AP) -- An 87-year-old German woman who is a prominent neo-Nazi has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 10 months in prison.Bild newspaper reported Friday that Ursula Haverbeck says she will appeal Thursday's Hamburg state court verdict.
Haverbeck was charged earlier this year after giving an interview outside the trial of former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening claiming Auschwitz wasn't a death camp.
When she challenged the presiding judge in Hamburg to prove it was, Bild reports that he said he wouldn't debate someone who "can't accept any facts," adding "I also don't have to prove to you the world is round."
Groening, who gave lengthy testimony on how the death camp functioned, was convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for the Jews killed while he was there.
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[Jerrylynnb]

Carolyn Yeager highlighted this on her website yesterday:

http://carolynyeager.net/categories?term_node_tid_depth=8

The very idea of hurling someone in jail for voicing a contrary opinion about a widely promulgated historical fiction grates my innards raw.

You can watch the "horrible" crime this wonderful German octogenarian committed on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVNc0PUBqM

(in German with english subtitles);

and here, in English, where she RUBS IT IN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1CVP97g-Uc

Speak up, GSUS. Lets here it from you!

[midnight rambler]

Do the people accused of being 'Neo-Nazi' actually refer to themselves as such?? ???

[madfranks]

10 months in prison for unacceptable beliefs. I'm astounded there isn't more outrage over this. Unfortunately most people will think this is ok. This is truly a frightening and sobering reminder of what is coming to us here in the "home of the free" USA. No other group in the world can get you kidnapped and locked in a cage if you don't believe what they do.

[midnight rambler]

10 months in prison for unacceptable beliefs. I'm astounded there isn't more outrage over this. Unfortunately most people will think this is ok. This is truly a frightening and sobering reminder of what is coming to us here in the "home of the free" USA. No other group in the world can get you kidnapped and locked in a cage if you don't believe what they do.

It would appear that imprisonment for being a 'heretic' will become more and more widespread.

[midnight rambler]

You MUST believe in our phantasms or we WILL destroy you.

[madfranks]

So when will the State Department condemn Europe for human rights violations, for imprisoning people for their beliefs? Don't we usually invade and destroy countries to "bring them democracy" when they do stuff like this?

[Santa]

Hard to even imagine how anyone could toss this classy well spoken elderly lady in prison, especially since all she has done is question official dogma. Seriously fucked up.

[Jewboo]

BERLIN (AP) -- An 87-year-old German woman...sentenced to 10 months in prison.



http://gold-silver.us/forum/image.php?u=15964&dateline=1444879166An 87-year-old German woman...sentenced to 10 months in prison.

[Norweger]

Bild reports that he said he wouldn't debate someone who "can't accept any facts," adding "I also don't have to prove to you the world is round."


This is something you'd expect to hear from a 16 year old, not a judge.

Ironically people like this judge would have been sent to concentration camps during ww2.