The German publisher and educator Ursula Haverbeck, now aged 95, faces renewed efforts to jail her for daring to speak and write “forbidden” opinions about her own country’s history.
According to a report published in a German newspaper this evening, Ursula was ordered to attend court last month, but this has now been rescheduled.
This is a separate case from the one in which Ursula has already been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. That sentence was imposed in Berlin in April 2022, but has not yet been served, partly because of certain technical issues, but also because of a delay in finding the correct prison hospital in which a 95-year-old could be imprisoned.
The Hamburg case dates back to 2015, when the district court imposed a ten-month prison sentence. For procedural reasons (partly related to the pandemic period) the Hamburg appeal has not yet been heard, and court dates have now been set for 7th, 12th and 26th June this year.
It’s not certain whether by then Ursula will already be serving the Berlin sentence. If so, this will probably be in a prison hospital in Fröndenberg, in the North Rhine Westphalia region.
She has already served a prison sentence in Bielefeld during 2018-2020.
Ursula’s “crime” is to have questioned the alleged extermination of six million Jews in purported homicidal “gas chambers”: an alleged mass murder presumed by orthodox historians to have been carried out on the orders of Adolf Hitler – even though these orthodox historians have never been able to produce the slightest evidence for such orders, nor establish how and where the murders took place.
German courts refuse even to discuss the evidence concerning this alleged “Holocaust”. They frequently impose jail sentences on dissident historians, scientists, and publishers.
The German-Canadian Ernst Zündel was deported to Germany in 2005 and arrested on arrival. He was held in Mannheim prison for exactly five years until his release in March 2010, having also been imprisoned from 2003-2005 in the USA and Canada awaiting deportation.
The scientist and historian Germar Rudolf was extradited from the USA to Germany in 2005 and imprisoned until 2009.
Philosopher, lawyer and political activist Horst Mahler (now aged 88) has served several prison sentences since 2007 for his views on “Holocaust” history and Judaism.
Horst’s lawyer Sylvia Stolz has also been imprisoned several times, and barred from practising law.
These are just some of the most famous cases where German courts have jailed serious writers (and even their lawyers) because of their forbidden opinions.
Sometimes prosecutors have even tried to extend the volksverhetzung law to citizens of other European countries. Traditional Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson was convicted and fined €12,000 in 2009 for answering questions about “Holocaust” history put to him by a television interviewer. The conviction was upheld after several appeals (eventually by the misnamed European Court of Human Rights in 2019).
The British model, advertising actress and filmmaker Lady Michèle Renouf was arrested after speaking at a memorial event in Dresden in February 2018. At the last moment, just as Lady Renouf was preparing to travel to Dresden for her trial in October 2020, the charges were dropped – apparently because prosecutors feared the embarrassment of jailing a British citizen whose late husband had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz, Germany’s highest civilian honour, and had many connections at the highest level of Germany’s financial world.
In March 2022 at Frankfurt airport, police and border guards ignored their own laws and breached Germany’s European constitutional obligations by refusing entry to the Spanish history student Isabel Peralta. They searched Isabel’s bags in a pre-planned operation (coordinated with the Spanish political police). Even though her hand baggage contained nothing more sinister than a copy of Homer’s Iliad, Isabel’s other bag was taken from the plane’s hold and searched. Though it is no offence to have national socialist material in one’s private possession, the German police sent Isabel back to Madrid.
Later the same year Isabel was arrested elsewhere in Germany and expelled from the country, though she had never been charged (let alone convicted) of any offence under German law.
The sad truth is that Germany remains under enemy occupation, almost eighty years after the end of the Second World War.
It doesn’t matter whether you are 95 or 19. It doesn’t matter whether you have been convicted under laws that contravene every normal constitutional standard of free speech, or whether in fact you haven’t been convicted or even charged with any offence.
Germany’s puppet police and puppet politicians will find some excuse to silence you: whether by imprisonment, exclusion from the country, or effective collaboration with violent “anti-fascists”.
German patriots are at the front line in the defence of free historical research. Their European friends (including the worldwide European diaspora) will never abandon them, and will never abandon the quest for historical truth and justice.
Ursula Haverbeck is a great heroine of that quest. When Europe shakes off the shackles imposed by the victors of the Second World War, true Europeans will honour her courage, her intelligence, and her steadfast loyalty to the real Germany.
