Who Is 'Nazi Grandma'? Holocaust Denier Ursula Haverbeck Goes To Prison After Absconding

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Who Is 'Nazi Grandma'? Holocaust Denier Ursula Haverbeck Goes To Prison After Absconding
By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 05/09/18 AT 5:00 AM

An 89-year-old woman, who was dubbed “Nazi Oma” by the German media, meaning “Nazi grandma,” for denying the Holocaust, was arrested Monday and placed in prison. She was due to begin serving her two-year prison sentence May 2 but was absconding.

Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced in August 2017 for writing in a far-right German magazine that Auschwitz had been a work camp, instead of recognizing it as a facility where millions of Jews were killed under the orders of German dictator Adolf Hitler, New York Daily News reported. Haverbeck’s late husband Werner Georg Haverbeck was an enthusiastic Nazi party member before and during the Second World War.

Despite the fact that Holocaust denial is considered a criminal offense in Germany, punishable up to five years in prison, Ursula continued to preach her beliefs over the years. Last year was the first time she was convicted of the crime, Independent reported.

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