{"id":3571,"date":"2019-12-04T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2019-12-04T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:56:32","slug":"new-state-religion-of-holocaust-means-no-free-speech-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"New State Religion of Holocaust Means No Free Speech in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\nGerman court rejects &#8216;Nazi grandma&#8217; appeal, as it rules Holocaust denial is not covered by free speech\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/german-court-rejects-nazi-grandma-appeal-rules-holocaust-denial\/?fbclid=IwAR3tzMkqQBgOTB169MwAGHZrMiG2A1t66ziUc7vQAHgu3NU7_PZmK2lL10g#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n\n<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/german-court-rejects-nazi-grandma-appeal-rules-holocaust-denial\/?fbclid=IwAR3tzMkqQBgOTB169MwAGHZrMiG2A1t66ziUc7vQAHgu3NU7_PZmK2lL10g#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/german-court-rejects-nazi-grandma-appeal-rules-holocaust-denial\/?fbclid=IwAR3tzMkqQBgOTB169MwAGHZrMiG2A1t66ziUc7vQAHgu3NU7_PZmK2lL10g#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/german-court-rejects-nazi-grandma-appeal-rules-holocaust-denial\/?fbclid=IwAR3tzMkqQBgOTB169MwAGHZrMiG2A1t66ziUc7vQAHgu3NU7_PZmK2lL10g#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/german-court-rejects-nazi-grandma-appeal-rules-holocaust-denial\/?fbclid=IwAR3tzMkqQBgOTB169MwAGHZrMiG2A1t66ziUc7vQAHgu3NU7_PZmK2lL10g#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/german-court-rejects-nazi-grandma-appeal-rules-holocaust-denial\/?fbclid=IwAR3tzMkqQBgOTB169MwAGHZrMiG2A1t66ziUc7vQAHgu3NU7_PZmK2lL10g#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n\n<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSave\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/TELEMMGLPICT000170880723_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqEC90nADzAHqz_X14LCxiKSqhhN_cpmLU5aSU4P3rJlg.jpeg?imwidth=450\" alt=\"Haverbeck, known as the 'Nazi-Grandma', insisted that the Holocaust and murder of Jews at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland are not &quot;historically proven&quot;\"\/><figcaption>\nHaverbeck, known as \nthe &#8216;Nazi-Grandma&#8217;, insisted that the Holocaust and murder of Jews at \nAuschwitz concentration camp in Poland are not &#8220;historically proven&#8221;\n\nCredit:\n&nbsp;Paul Zinken\/AFP\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/caroline-green\/\">Caroline Green<\/a>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n4 August 2018 \u2022 8:42pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German \nholocaust denier &nbsp;Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to two and a half \nyears in prison after the country&#8217;s highest court ruled that denying the\n mass murder of Jews during Nazi Germany is not covered by the right to \nfree speech and &#8220;threatens public peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/11993382\/German-Nazi-grandma-sentenced-to-10-months-in-prison-for-Holocaust-denial.html\">Haverbeck,\n who is known as the &#8216;Nazi-Grandma&#8217;, was convicted last May for \npublishing a series of articles in which she insisted that the Holocaust\n and murder of Jews at Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied \nPoland are not &#8220;historically proven&#8221;. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Germany, denying the Holocaust constitutes a crime of incitement to hatred and carries a prison sentence of up to five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 89-year old went to&nbsp;Germany&#8217;s constitutional court to appeal her \nsentence, claiming that her statements fall under the country&#8217;s right to\n free speech, which is protected by law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in their ruling, the high court judges found that the right to free speech does not protect the denial of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The dissemination of untrue and deliberately false statements of \nfact can not contribute to the development of public opinion and thus do\n not fall in the remits of protection for free speech&#8221;, the judges wrote\n in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The denial of the Nazi genocide goes beyond the limits of the \npeacefulness of public debate and threatens public peace,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/TELEMMGLPICT000170874867_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-LJS7LKjeK9Zr8QxHnNHG7WmUWN4JPh7xJS2j89Q238.jpeg?imwidth=480\" alt=\"Ursula Haverbeck, in court accused of hate speech in 2017\"\/><figcaption>\nUrsula Haverbeck, in court accused of hate speech in 2017\n\nCredit:\nBernd Thissen\/AP\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Haverbeck\n has a long history of support for the former Nazi regime and co-founded\n a now-banned right wing &#8216;education center&#8217; called Collegium Humanum \nwith her late husband Werner Georg Haverbeck, a former Nazi party \nmember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her articles denying the Holocaust were published in right-wing magazine Stimme des Reiches (Voice of the Empire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haverbeck has received several convictions from a range of German \ncourts for her claims that the systematic mass murder of millions of \nJews and other persecuted groups during Germany&#8217;s Nazi regime did not \ntake place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one occasion she was convicted for calling the Holocaust &#8220;the biggest and longest-lasting lie in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German court rejects &#8216;Nazi grandma&#8217; 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