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The 94-year-old German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck has to go to prison. Following her final conviction for incitement to hatred to one year in prison, the Berlin prosecutor’s office has requested Haverbeck to go immediately to prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, a spokesman for the authorities said on Wednesday.

Haverbeck, who lives in Vlotho (District Herford), had tried to avoid prison by filing for disability. However, a prison doctor had confirmed her detention capacity, the prosecutor said.

Haverbeck now has to serve her sentence in an open prison in Bielefeld-Senne. “There is no fixed time or deadline for this and we have not yet received a corresponding confession notice from the JVA,” said the spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office. Authorities originally invited the notorious Holocaust denier to jail in mid-October.

Haverbeck failed her appeal against two sedition convictions from 2017 and 2020 before the Berlin court last April. The widow denied the Holocaust, the judge explained at the time. There is no sign of remorse or reconsideration. A total sentence of one year in prison is appropriate to the crime and guilt.

Criminal courts have repeatedly dealt with the notorious agitator for years. In 2004 she was convicted for the first time and fined. Most recently, sentences were handed down without parole. Haverbeck repeatedly claimed that the Auschwitz concentration camp was not an extermination camp and that no mass killings took place. Historians estimate that the Nazis murdered at least 1.1 million people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp alone. (cpf/sda/dpa)