The trial against a 95-year-old Holocaust denier persists.

Procedures get altered. - The trial against a 95-year-old Holocaust denier persists.

The upcoming trial against notorious Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck in Hamburg will take place on Wednesday. The 95-year-old suspect is expected to answer questions regarding her personal background and life, according to a court spokesperson.

Haverbeck, a well-known figure in right-wing circles, was initially sentenced to ten months in prison without probation by the district court back in 2015. Afterwards, she filed an appeal against this ruling. The case has now been brought before the regional court, where the prosecution accuses her of inciting hatred in two separate instances.

As per the indictment, Haverbeck made several controversial statements in April 2015, claiming that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp but rather a labor camp. She also claimed, during a televised interview with NDR's "Panorama" magazine, that no mass murders occurred at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This isn't the first time Haverbeck's statements have faced legal consequences. She was first convicted in 2004 and received a fine. Since then, she has faced various penalties without probation. Most notably, she served more than two years in prison in Bielefeld for her denial of the Holocaust. Historians estimate that the Nazis killed at least 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

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1. After her initial conviction in 2004, the local court in Hamburg imposed a fine on Ursula Haverbeck for her denial of National Socialism's atrocities.
2. During the ongoing process against Haverbeck, the court spokeswoman emphasized that the trial is not an attempt to stifle freedom of speech, but to combat extremism.
3. In the current case, the regional court in Hamburg is considering two instances where Haverbeck allegedly incited hatred by denying the historical facts of the Holocaust, specifically regarding Auschwitz.
4. The cases against Haverbeck are not isolated incidents; they are part of a series of processes aimed at upholding the truth about National Socialism's horrors and combating the resurgence of extremist ideologies in German history.

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