GERMAN AUTHORITIES RAID HOME OF NAZI WIDOW, HOLOCAUST DENIER

There are just some Nazis out there that just won’t give up the ghost. Ursula Haverbeck (pictured) is one of them. So she gets her house searched after she played her Holocaust denial game perhaps one too many times in a country that don’t play that.

One People’s Project

VLOTHO, GERMANY – A German Holocaust denier refered to in German press as a “neo-Nazi figurehead” who’s late husband worked for the Nazi Party, has had her home raided by German authorities and may be facing criminal charges under that country’s strict anti-hate laws.

According to media reports, Ursula Haverbeck, along with three of her supporters, had their homes raided over the weekend by police in search of evidence supporting a possible charge of volksverhetzung, or incitement of popular hatred. German criminal law bans “the incitement of hatred against a segment of the population.” Holocaust denial and glorification of the Nazi government of 1933-1945 are illegal under the provisions of volksverhetzung.

In March, Haverbeck was interviewed for the German television program Panorama about her position that the Holocaust did not take place, and she maintained this stance. “”(T)here is, I believe, no lie that has operated more persistently and transformatively, and indeed not only in Germany but practically worldwide as this Holocaust,” she said, citing such arguments as there were no gas chambers found, the concentration camp at Auschwitz being “quite simply a huge industrial complex”, and that the nation had the right “to intern enemy nationals residing in its territory because the danger exists that they might commit espionage.” Haverbeck further cited other nations doing what she felt was the same as Germany at the time. “Everyone did it,” she said. “For example, one of my uncles was in India at the time, but the English was there and so he was interned there. My mother’s brother was in America and he was interned there…And the Russians did it too of course. One mustn’t forget that.”

For over fifty years, Haverbeck, 86, has been active in extreme right-wing politics in Germany. Her husband Werner Haverbeck was a former Hitler Youth member and the Nazi environmental leader of the Reich’s League for Folk National Character and Landscape. Upon his death in 1999, she took over the Heimvolkshochschule (Folk High School) he founded in 1963, until the government banned it in 2008 due to its housing of the neo-Nazi training camp “Collegium Humanum”. Haverbeck has had numerous run-ins with the law over her Holocaust denial.

If Haverbeck is charged and convicted, she faces a maximum of five years in prison.