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A notorious 95-year-old German Holocaust denier was sentenced to one year and four months in prison after being convicted of incitement by a court in Hamburg on Wednesday. The charges against Ursula Haverbeck stem from comments she made during the 2015 criminal trial of former Nazi SS member Oskar Gröning, who served as a guard at Auschwitz. Haverbeck claimed to reporters covering the trial that Auschwitz - where historians estimate the Nazis systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people - was only a labour camp, not an extermination camp. She made similar false claims in a television in...
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A notorious 95-year-old German Holocaust denier was sentenced to one year and four months in prison after being convicted of incitement by a court in Hamburg on Wednesday. The charges against Ursula Haverbeck stem from comments she made during the 2015 criminal trial of former Nazi SS member Oskar Gröning, who served as a guard at Auschwitz. Haverbeck claimed to reporters covering the trial that Auschwitz - where the Nazis systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people - was only a labour camp, not an extermination camp. She made similar false claims in a television interview with the reg...
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As the trial of notorious 95-year-old Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck draws to a close in the northern German port city of Hamburg, a verdict could be handed down on Wednesday. Haverbeck, who is popular among right-wing extremists, was sentenced to 10 months in prison without probation by the city's district court in 2015. She lodged an appeal, but the trial did not take place until nine years later. She is accused of two counts of incitement to hatred. According to the indictment, Haverbeck told journalists on April 21, 2015, on the fringes of the trial of former SS member Oskar Gröning, th...
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The city of Hamburg police's state security service has carried out raids in several flats targeting Islamists in northern Germany. The background to the searches on Tuesday is an investigation into three German nationals aged 29, 32 and 41 years old, who are alleged to have published criminal messages about the Gaza war on social media, the police said. Residential addresses in the Hamburg districts of Lohbrügge, Billstedt, Eidelstedt and in the city of Bremerhaven to the west of Hamburg were searched. "We are keeping up the pressure and are continuing to take action against the Islamist scen...
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Germany's Federal Association of Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) said on Tuesday that it documented 4,782 incidents that it deemed anti-Semitic last year - the most ever recorded by the group and an 83% rise over 2022. The association said the sharp rise came amid attacks and hostilities toward Jews in Germany following the October 7 terror attacks in Israel led by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. RIAS recorded 2,787 incidents between October 7 and the end of the year, according to its annual report released on Tuesday. RIAS Managing Director Benjamin Steinitz said that th...
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German prosecutors are continuing their investigation into racist incidents on the upmarket North Sea holiday island of Sylt, senior state prosecutor Bernd Winterfeldt told dpa on Sunday. "The investigations will probably still take a few weeks," Winterfeldt said. Prosecutors in Flensburg in the north-western state of Schleswig-Holstein are investigating two men and a woman in connection with Nazi-era chants in a popular bar on the island a month ago. A case of sedition is being investigated, along with a case involving the use of symbols of a banned organization, he said. The investigation wa...
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German Federal Prosecutor General Jens Rommel has identified Islamist terrorism as one of primary security concerns facing Germany. Rommel on Tuesday disclosed that out of over 700 investigations conducted last year in the field of terrorism and state security, nearly 500 were linked to Islamist terrorism. According to Rommel, more than 40 cases were related to right-wing extremist crime and three cases attributed to left-wing extremism. Rommel said that 38 of the initiated proceedings were related to international criminal law. Politically motivated crimes have increased across the spectrum, ...
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The third mammoth trial linked to the "Reich Citizens" extremist movement in Germany started in the southern city of Munich on Tuesday. The trial concerns a group of suspects linked to Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss, who prosecutors say was a key figure in an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the German government. Some defendants only partially covered their faces from the press cameras with a folder or newspaper at the start of the trial. Others were apparently indifferent to the presence of journalists. Proceedings were briefly disrupted by heckling from the public gallery, but then the defend...
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The third mammoth trial linked to the "Reich Citizens" extremist movement in Germany starts in the southern city of Munich on Tuesday. The trial concerns a group of suspects linked to Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss, whom prosecutors say was a key figure in an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the German government. The Reich Citizens, or Reichsbürger in German, claim the historical German Reich of 1871 to 1945, with an emperor as head of state, is the country's legitimate form of government. As such, they do not recognize the current German government or its institutions. The group was exposed fo...
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The third mammoth trial linked to the "Reich Citizens" extremist movement in Germany starts in the southern city of Munich on Tuesday. The trial concerns a group of suspects linked to Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss, whom prosecutors say was a key figure in an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the German government. The Reich Citizens, or Reichsbürger in German, claim the historical German Reich of 1871 to 1945, with an emperor as head of state, is the country's legitimate form of government. As such, they do not recognize the current German government or its institutions. The group was exposed fo...
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