[From “Ursula Haverbeck”]

URSULA Haverbeck, the German patriot, scholar and writer who spent much of the last 20 years in court and was jailed for more than two years in her 80s, has reportedly died at the age of 96. I first [url=https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2015/11/elderly-german-sentenced-for-challenging-auschwitz/wrote about her[/url] in 2015 (also here)

According to Haverbeck, she simply started asking polite questions and, after receiving no answers, came to unacceptable conclusions about the death toll in World War II. In the second entry above, I quoted Nigel Jackson:

This sentencing of this woman can justly be described as a crime against humanity. Why is this?

There are two possibilities: either she is right (or largely right) or she is wrong (or largely wrong). Let us assume that the latter is true. We then have a pitiful spectacle of an elderly person stubbornly and irrationally clinging to a mistaken view of historical events. Shakespeare’s King Lear is the archetypal work of art examining the ramifications of such a situation[…]
If Ms. Haverbeck is wrong (and a formidable battery of opinion, including learned opinion, around the world maintains that she is), then what damage can her statements really do to anyone? …

If such is the situation, why on earth was she ever brought to trial? Why were her remarks not just passed over[…]

She never gave in and never seemed angry. She had remarkable courage, dignity and graciousness. I know very little of her early life, however, and cannot comment on it. German authorities were still seeking to return her to prison at the time of her death. This song below was reportedly her favorite patriotic song:
Nichts kann uns rauben [Patriotic German song]