Germany jails people for voicing opinions about history.
Europeans should all get cards that sketch out which opinions you are allowed to voice and which opinions will get you sentenced to jail.
Should all anti-Jewish opinions be illegal? What about anti-black and anti-Muslim views?
From an American perspective, these laws criminalizing opinions seem insane.
From the Daily Mail: A German grandmother aged 87 has been sentenced to ten months in jail for denying the Holocaust and saying Auschwitz was ‘just a labour camp’.
Ursula Haverbeck, who is a friend of Gudrun Burwitz – elderly daughter of Nazi S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler – was sentenced in a court in Hamburg for sedition over an interview she gave to a TV station denying that Jews were murdered in extermination camps.
In the interview with the ARD network she claimed the death camp of Auschwitz in Nazi occupied Poland, where at least 1.1 million people were murdered, was ‘nothing more than a labour camp.’
Haverbeck has been sentenced several times in the past for her trenchant views supporting the Nazis.
Around 30 ultra right-wingers were in court on Thursday in Hamburg to support her.
During her defence she said that the Holocaust of six million Jews ‘was the greatest and longest lived lie in history.’
Judge Björn Jönsson struggled to maintain his temper with the elderly Nazi after she said she shouldn’t be punished for the crime again as she had already been fined twice and given a suspended sentence for previous Holocaust denials.
From RT: German legislation regards as incitement of hatred not only encouraging hatred or violence to a particular group of people, but also approving of, denying or downplaying Nazi crimes. So Haverbeck-Wetzel faced trial for her statements…
Incitement of hatred carries a potential sentence of up to five years in Germany, but the verdict is not so harsh because of the age of the convicted. The court, however, decided to sentence Haverbeck-Wetzel to a jail time because it wasn’t the first case against her.
