An 87-year-old grandmother convicted for Holocaust denial seeks to attend the trial of a former SS guard in Auschwitz, Reinhold Hanning, who is charged with at least 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, but the elderly lady is taken away by police after she comes under attack, national news agency DPA reports.
Police officers shield Ursula Haverbeck from physical harassment, and she eventually leaves the site in a car, DPA reports without giving further details.
Haverbeck is a notorious extremist who was once chairwoman of a far-right training center shut down in 2008 for spreading Nazi propaganda.
She was sentenced in November to 10 months in jail for Holocaust denial after a trial in which she insisted that Auschwitz was “not historically proven” to be a death camp.
That is “only a belief,” said Haverbeck, dubbed Nazi-Oma (Nazi grandma) by the media.
She had also gone on television to declare that “the Holocaust is the biggest and most sustainable lie in history.”
Some 1.1 million people, most of them European Jews, perished between 1940 and 1945 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp before it was liberated by Soviet forces.
— AFP
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