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 interview with the regional public broadcaster NDR.
The Hamburg court said on Wednesday that four months of Haverbeck's sentence would be considered served already because of long delays in bringing the case to trial.
The verdict is not yet final and may be appealed.
Haverbeck, who is a well-known figure in German far-right extremist circles, was originally sentenced to 10 months in prison without probation by the district court in Hamburg in 2015.
She lodged an appeal, but the trial did not take place until nine years later.
For years, criminal courts have repeatedly had to deal with statements made by Haverbeck.
The elderly extremist was first convicted for the first time in 2004 and received a fine. She previously served more than two years in prison for Holocaust denial.
In 2022, a court in Berlin sentenced her to one year in prison for incitement to hatred. She has not yet served her sentence.
