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       		 			Thought and Speech Crimes: The Disturbing Case of Revisionist Ursula Haverbeck		    		 
         May 8, 2018    Thomas Müller    	 Ursula Haverbeck in court in October 2017. PHOTO: Der
         Tagesspiegel/Reuters     Forty  percent of American millennials (ages 20-36) believe the government  should intervene when
         citizens say something that might be considered  offensive to minorities, a Pew Research study  reveals. It is not entirely clear what is meant by “intervene” and  “minorities,” and the term
         “offensive” is broadly defined. As usual in  the world of Newspeak we go to our standby- the dictionary. Offensive:
          causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed. Wow, the eggshell  world is here.     Intuitively, the question likely pertains to
         the sort of nonsense we are seeing involving censorship and public persecution of those who espouse views that are deemed “politically incorrect.”     Despite the threat
         of political correctness (PC) from millennials,  Americans overall still put a high value on free speech, with only 28%
          in favor of government regulation of speech. Among respondents, 27  percent of Gen Xers (37-52), 24 percent of Baby Boomers
         (ages 53-71) and  12 percent of the Silent Generation (age 72 and older) believe  government should control and limit offensive
         speech. The dwindling  Greatest Generation universally defends free speech, but they are now  over age 90.     In Germany, a troubling 70% are in favor
         of limiting free speech.  That country will jail those who engage even in revisionist history  involving WWII, and even debate
         on the Holocaust is considered taboo. In  fact, it is illegal in Germany to deny or even downplay
          the Holocaust. The term deny is curious given that no leading  revisionist on the topic actually denies atrocities or actions
         against  Jews and others.     Understanding of the Case of Ursula Haverbeck    89 year old Ursula Haverbeck was supposed to report to prison to serve a two year sentence for
         “holocaust denial”. Instead she is on the run,  presumably sheltered away someplace by supporters. The Jewish  ‘International Auschwitz Committee’, apparently
         oblivious to the bad  optics, is asking German police to use ‘high pressure’ to hunt down and  imprison this elderly
         woman.     Update:
         Ursula apparently went back to her home after five days on the run, and police hauled her to prison.     Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced for violating section 220a [see  below].
         For a woman of her advanced age, this is the equivalent of a  death sentence.     The following video is the interview that got her into hot water.
         Watch it before it’s removed from the Internet.   
           Apparently, “downplay” is double-speak for revisionism. Watch the
         interview closely, as if you were on the jury. Nowhere  does Haverbeck deny that crimes or atrocities were committed
         against  Jews (and others), nor does she refuse to accept that they were rounded  up or persecuted. Rather, she speaks mostly
         about the nature, methods  and the numbers, which is deemed “revisionism.”     The following is an excerpt from the German law,
         and what a broad and  sweeping law it is. In essence, it demands no one disturb the public  peace, ruffle feathers or challenge
         a history that has been deemed set  in stone or static.   
         (3) Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or renders harmless
         an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the type indicated in Section 220a subsection (1), in a manner
         capable of disturbing the public peace shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine.      Please, watch Haverbeck for yourself. See if you can identify her
          so-called offensive words that “might disturb the public peace.” In  fact, Haverbeck was remarkably well composed
         and was relatively careful  in her word choice. Despite the news coverage on her imprisonment, I  certainly didn’t hear
         her “approve of” atrocities or claim they didn’t  happen. Do you hear her “rendering harmless”
         acts committed under the  rule of National Socialism?   
          She did go into the rarely discussed — but I think much-needed —
         topic of the mass murder (Hellstorm) of German civilians and  POWs as the war wound down and after the defeat of Germany. Basically,  she is “guilty” of processing
         things outside of the box and not  functioning under prescribed terms. Her “revisionism” only involves  researching
         and questioning the size and degree of atrocities against  Jews and the aspects of the Hellstorm.     She did suggest that truth or history on these
         topic has been  “distorted.” She uses the term “Das Groste Problem” to define this  distortion. This
         is problematic in her eyes because this historical  distortion has been used as an agenda to kowtow Germany and promote  Zionist
         power.     I’m
         sorry, but I don’t see “The Great Problem” train of thought as a  jailable crime. I don’t see being
         an aggressive revisionist as being a  jailable crime either. Nor is hurting someone’s feelings a jailable  offense.
         Any sensible observer would say that ALL history has been  distorted to one degree or another and should be subjected to frequent
          revision, review and question. Nothing should be set in stone.     Courageous Jewish historian Norman Finkelstein
         has addressed the  issue of shaping history and ranking human suffering (uniqueness  doctrine) to achieve questionable agendas
         as it relates to Palestine.  This is also what Haverbeck challenged.      To help set the facts straight on this case, I believe Haverbeck
         essentially adopted the work of the French historian Paul Rassinier and probably also French historian Robert Faurisson. The  latter focused on the so-called confessions of Auschwitz commandant  Rudolf Hoess under severe torture. Since his
         death, some of his views  (such as no gassing in camps within Germany) have quietly been accepted  with little notice by the
         mainstream Holocaust historians. Haverbeck is  not an original researcher but has picked up the mantel. Incidentally,  Amazon
         just purged the works of these historians from their online  marketplace.     TNN has no intention of going into the thought police tarpit of  discussion
         on Rassinier and Faurisson’s outlawed historical revisionism.  We have no strong conviction one way or the other and,
         like most  events, especially when the victors write the history, there are shades  of grey. There is far too much false dichotomy
         on both sides of the  issue.  We do find the notion of a court approved version of events that  one could lose their
         liberty over beyond Orwellian. The “judge” would not permit testimony from a revisionist historian in
         court.  It is fundamental that there should be open discussion, even of  controversial views, without threat of prosecution.
         But if the  authorities are willing to make an example out of an 89-year-old woman,  well, what more is there to say.     Mind-Blowing Comments
         in Joseph Goebbels’ Diaries    I don’t claim to have the answers. But something popped up while reading through the Goebbels Diaries that
         blew my mind. In the diary there  is a reference to Hungary. And it looks like Goebbels the insider and  one of Hitler’s closest confidants
         thinks something completely different  is going on. According to the official narrative the deportation of the  Hungarian
         Jews began on April 29, 1944 when a train load of Jews were  sent to Birkenau. In ten short weeks 400,000 were alleged gassed
         there.     Did
         Goebbels not get the word of such a major operation? Curious  comments indeed. Some claim Goebbels was lying to avoid incrimination.
          But Goebbels bluntly said plenty in his diaries to incriminate himself,  and had no intention of ever appearing as a defendant
         before a tribunal.      Apr 18, 1944 (II.12.44)  The Führer then explained to the Gauleiters the background
         of  his campaign in Hungary, and how it was designed. He gave an amusing  description of his talk with Horthy. He had to use
         strong-arm tactics  because the old man was not comfortable with the necessary measures. The  Führer left him in no doubt,
         that either it would be a fight to the  death or that he had to submit. The Führer had so many forces to apply  to this
         campaign that Horthy offered no serious resistance. In  particular, the Führer expected contributions from Hungary of
         food, oil,  manganese, and people. In particular, he wants the 700,000 Jews in Hungary involved in beneficial activities
         for our war effort.    Apr 27, 1944 (II.12.199)  300,000 Hungarian Jews
         have been detained and imprisoned in the concentration camps. They  should come, in large part, to Germany as a workforce.
         Himmler will  take care of this; above all, they are to be used for our difficult war  production programs.   
         May 4, 1944 (II.12.232)  Our plenipotentiary in Hungary, Veesenmayer, gives an excellent speech  on
         the decisive Hungarian factors. …In particular, it’s to his credit  that the Hungarian potential is now in large
         part requisitioned for our  war efforts. Also, the Jewish Question is now being handled more  energetically. I insist that
         the measures taken against the Jews in  Hungary have a factual basis. It’s not enough that one only announces in  the
         press what happens, but one must also explain it. In  Budapest the Jews are starting to be gathered into ghettos.
         The ghettos  are built in the vicinity of the armament factories, because air attacks  are likely there. It is hoped thereby
         to avoid British-American attacks  on Budapest, if at all possible.    
          The notion that the vast majority of Jews sat around passively  awaiting their
         fate is a myth. The Jewish Telegraph Agency has numerous  stories of evacuations as the eastern front advanced. See: [Jewish News Archive, 7/8-1941; 45,000 Bukovina Jews Evacuated to Soviet Interior]and [Jewish News Archive 2/18/1942, Uzbekistan Becomes New Home for Hundreds of Thousands of Evacuated Jews] or fought back.      
   Apparently Goebbels didn’t
         have any idea about the scale of any killing operations against Jews either.    Apr 29, 1942 (II.4.201) **  The SD gave me a police report on conditions
         in the East. The danger of  the Partisans continues to exist in unmitigated intensity in the  occupied areas. The Partisans
         have, after all, caused us very great  difficulties during the winter, and these difficulties have by no means  ceased with
         the beginning of spring. Short shrift (kurzen Prozess) is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas.
         Tens of thousands must bite the dust, and the Fuhrer’s prophecy is fulfilled for them, that Jewry has to pay
         for inciting a new World War with the complete removal (Ausrottung) of their race..      Later, indeed these Jewish ghettos near armament factories were  bombed
         by the Allies. One Hungarian Jew in the Yad Vashem interviews who  was conscripted to work on the Carpathian fortifications
         stated that  his grandparents and sister were killed in such a Budapest raid.         We do find it deeply disturbing that Haverbeck is to be imprisoned at all. And what of those who simply defend
         free speech and  the right of Haverbeck to conduct this interview without prosecution  and jail time? Are they, too,
         going to be subjected via some contorted  circular logic leading to derision, ridicule or even prosecution?     Support for Ursula Haverbeck can be provided here.     ___________________________________________________
            
      
               UN Universal  Declaration
         of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to freedom of   opinion and expression; this right includes the right to hold opinions  without  interference and to seek, receive and impart informational
          and  ideas through any media
         and regardless of frontiers.     ON NOVEMBER 9 a
         woman who has led a blameless life will spend her 91st birthday   in a German prison. Frau Ursula Haverbeck is the conscience of the  self-styled free world.  The unassuming grandmother was last year again  gaoled for expressing her opinion.     Only in the grotesque  European
         Union is it possible for ordinary people who have led  blameless
          lives to be fed into the cruellest of prison regimes for  periods
         up to  five years for speaking out against perceived injustice.     The aged lady was gaoled  for
         defending her nation’s honour. She described the official  holocaust  narrative as a fraud and a blood libel. Yet, those who admit  or been  found guilty of holocaust fraud have not been imprisoned.     Frau Ursula Haverbeck is  one of growing millions who today question the victors’
         version  of the  so-called holocaust; Germany is still
         an occupied country. To their  credit,  many prominent
         Jews also pour scorn on the cash chamber myths.     Free inquiry  requires
         that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect  the  right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they  may be,  without social or legal prohibition or fear of success.
          ~ Paul  Kurtz Source:
         A Secular Humanist Declaration, in On the Barricades,  1989.      WRITE TO
         URSULA AND CHEER HER UP:  Frau Ursula Haverbeck, JVA Bielefeld-Brackwede,
         Umlostrasse 100, D-33649, Germany.       Richard Lynn the Professor Emeritus University
         of Ulster writes:  ‘I have checked out Winston
         Churchill’s Second World War and the statement is quite correct.'     There is not a single
         mention of Nazi gas chambers, genocide of the Jews, or of six million  Jewish victims of the war. Eisenhower’s Crusade in Europe is a book
         of 559 pages; the six  volumes of Churchill’s Second
         World War total 4,448 pages;  and de Gaulle’s
         three-volume Mémoires de Guerre is 2,054 pages.     In this mass of writing,  which
         altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory  parts),  published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of  Nazi gas  chambers, a genocide of the Jews, or of six million Jewish  victims of the war.’     Perhaps these three  warlords
         should be charged with holocaust denial as with hundreds 
         of  historians, researchers, journalists, people who simply want holocaust  exaggeration and fraud investigated.  An often overlooked question that is  relevant to the holocaust debate. 
         Should exposure  and lack of  credibility in the myth of the six million become
         overwhelming ~ and we  are  close to the tipping point, could journalists and palace
         historians  be charged with complicity in abetting fraud?     Here’s  freedom
         to him who would speak; here’s freedom to him who would write;   for there’s none ever feared that the truth should be heard;  save he who  the truth would indict! ~ ROBERT BURNS.     Do not allow yourself to  be diverted
         and distracted by the ‘did it happen or not happen’   smokescreen.  Instead, ask yourself, should Europe back-pedal to an age   in which innocent women were burned at the stake or drowned for heresy. 
            By what right do the  political
         elite incarcerate people for their sincerely held beliefs?  The
          mind-set of the judiciary and their abhorrent cheer-leading media is  reminiscent of  medieval times when harsh punishment was inflicted on  those who dared challenge the official
         narrative.     Frau Ursula Haverbeck is  persecuted
         as were great thinkers like Alexander Solzhenitsyn,  Knut
          Hamsun, journalist Julian Assange and whistle-blowers like Edward  Snowden.     PROTEST FOR URSULA HAVERBECK      A nation that is  afraid to let its people judge the truth and  falsehood is a nation  afraid of its people.’  ~ President J. F. Kennedy.       The Jewish community  challenges
         the right of a ‘Martyrs for justice’ protest in support of   Frau Haverbeck in Bielefeld on November 9 where the elderly martyr is  caged. To support  justice and free speech it is not necessary for you to  travel to Bielefeld as Bielefeld
         is your laptop’s keyboard.     Wherever you are in the  world,
         use this news story to inspire letters to the press.  The
         more  spirited and active might organise protests outside German embassies and   consulates. Five or six people are enough. A press release setting  out  the reason for your protest will be seen by tens of thousands.     Exposure is what  persecutors
         of Frau Haverbeck fear. As a bonus, the massive publicity   will
         inspire people to see what all the fuss is about. Thanks to the  freer internet, millions  will see for themselves how they have been  fooled by what  has been described as the most successful hoax in  history.    CHEER
         URSULA UP WITH A NICE LETTER: Frau Ursula Haverbeck, JVA Bielefeld-Brackwede, Umlostrasse 100, D-33649, Germany.           
        
        Write to Ursula Haverbeck at the following address:       JVA Bielefeld-Brackwede   z. Hd. Ursula Haverbeck   Umlostraße 100   33649 Bielefeld   GERMANY        
      
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rMVuETAy0
         Proxy   Highlight   Sep   21, 2016 ... In German with English subtitles by DIDI 18. Ursula
                   Haverbeck, the courageous octogenarian previously imprisoned  for  pointing out the lack of evidence to support
         the holocaust          delusion,  here presents details of the planned genocide of the  european christian  peoples via The
         Hooten Plan.  
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-s9_8-WIFg
         Proxy   Highlight   Sep  24, 2016 ... Ursula Haverbeck, the courageous octogenarian previously
                   imprisoned for pointing out the lack of evidence to support the  holocaust delusion, here presents de...  
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--XGno0izxA
         Proxy   Highlight   Sep  24, 2016 ... Ursula Haverbeck talks about the migrant crisis in
                  Europe,  Germany, the world wars, Hooton plan, Nizer plan, Morgenthau plan, and  more. https://www.youtube. c...  
   https://carolynyeager.net/ursula-haverbeck-hooton-pla...
                  Proxy   Highlight   Sep   20, 2016 ... The Hooton Planand the Migrant Crisis SUBTITLED
         IN          ENGLISH  BY DIDI 18, this is an almost 30 minute video by  Ursula Haverbeck  explaining why Europe is being invaded
         ... it's          all in the Hooton Plan!  Only one book describing the Hooton  Plan is still available, but only in  German.
         Ursula tells us          that four ...  
   www.eurofolkradio.com/2016/09/21/ursula-haverbeck-hoo...
                  Proxy   Highlight   Sep   21, 2016 ... In German with English subtitles by DIDI 18. Ursula
                   Haverbeck, the courageous octogenarian previously imprisoned  for  pointing out the lack of evidence to support
         the holocaust          delusion,  here presents details of the planned genocide of the  European christian  peoples via The
         Hooten Plan.  
         
   
      
      Click on this text to see video: Ursula Haverbeck on The Greatest Problem of Our Time w/ Permanent Subtitles... 
       
      
      Click on this text to visit Ursula Haverbeck's website (German language).... 
      
    
   
                 
   
   
      
         'Nazi Grandma' holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck sentenced to jail     An 87-year-old woman has been
         sentenced to prison after  she claimed that Jews were never exterminated in Auschwitz. Her  criminal record includes two fines
         and another sentence for sedition.    
                     
         A court in Detmold on Friday sentenced Ursula Haverbeck to eight  months in jail on charges of sedition. The presiding judge
         ruled out the  possibility of parole and said that Haverbeck had a lack of "any kind  of respect" and that she had
         made more offensive comments in the  courtroom.     Haverbeck is expected to appeal
         against the  sentencing. In Germany, anyone who publicly denies, endorses or plays  down the extermination of Jews during
         Adolf Hitler's regime can be  sentenced to a maximum of five years in jail.     Haverbeck
         was  found guilty of writing a letter to Detmold's mayor, Rainer Heller,  saying it was "clearly recognizable" that
         Auschwitz was nothing more  than a labor camp. She wrote her message at the time when the Detmold  court was trying Reinhold
         Hanning, a former guard who served at the  Auschwitz concentration camp.         Reinhold Hanning (center) was witness to thousands of murders at Auschwitz   
            The 94-year-old was sentenced to five years in prison after the court found him guilty of being
         an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people,  mostly Jews. Haverbeck spoke about Hanning's trial in her letter,  alleging that the witnesses at the trial were set up
         to prove the  existence of the concentration camp.     Ursula Haverbeck is known  for
         her right-wing extremist views. Several courts have sentenced her  and her punishments include two fines and another suspended sedition sentence. She was on trial last year for saying that the Holocaust was "the biggest and longest-lasting lie in history."   
          
      
      
    
   
                 
   
   
   
                 
   
   
      
      
              Sent: Wed, Aug 30, 2017 2:43 pm  Subject: GERMANY SHAMED BEFORE THE WORLD                                                                                     
         GERMANY SHAMED BEFORE THE WORLD       Ursula Haverbeck is tonight  in a prison cell where
         she is to serve two years jail. In Washington  Occupied Germany (WOG) it is illegal to investigate and expose holocaust  fraud.       Instead
         of being honoured for exposing a legal loophole through which tens of  millions of Euros are siphoned out of Germany the 88-year
         old  grandmother now faces a lonely cell death.       During  an arraignment, as crooked as notorious Soviet eras show trials, media  hacks submissively clapped
         the near nonagenarian’s sentence. With  breath-taking chutzpah it was the grandmother not the state that was  charged
         with treason.       It  is well to remember that the constitution and chancellorship of  Occupied Germany is illegal under
         international law. The last legal  chancellor was that of Karl Doenitz. Seized in 1945 by the Allied  occupiers the Grand-Admiral
         and Germany´s legal legislators were seized,  gaoled or hanged. Since then, WOG chancellors and politicians have  first
         to be approved by Washington DC.       In  occupied Germany it is a criminal offence to query victors’ propaganda  even when the defendant´s
         case is proven beyond all shadow of doubt.       Frau  Haverbeck's lawyer argued that the sentence violated their client´s  freedom of expression
         and called for her to be acquitted. The court,  likened to a North Korean secret chamber, dismissed the appeal.       “We are newspaper readers. Only when we share do we become
         newspaper publishers and editors.” ~ Michael Walsh.       
              
 
    
      
    
   
                 
   
   
      
      
      
         					 		 	 	 		 									 		 
   German police are hunting
         an 89-year-old grandmother  convicted on several occasions for Holocaust denial, after she failed to  turn herself in to serve
         her prison sentence.     (Euro News)   Ursula Haverbeck, dubbed "Nazi-Oma"
         (Nazi grandma) by german MSM, was  convicted in October on eight counts of incitement and sentenced to two  years in prison.     But she did not
         report to prison to serve her sentence by the April 23 deadline.     After the convict failed to report to the relevant
         penal institution  within the deadline, prosecutors in Verden on May 4, 2018 issued an  order to execute the sentence and
         have charged police with its  implementation," prosecutors said in a statement.  The convict has so far not been
         arrested," they added.     Haverbeck was once chairwoman of a far-right training centre shut down in 2008 for spreading "Nazi propaganda".     She has been sentenced
         on several occasions to jail for "Holocaust denial".     During a trial in 2015, she insisted that Auschwitz was not historically
         proven to be a death camp.       That is "only a belief," said Haverbeck then.     She has also gone on television to declare that
         "the Holocaust is the biggest and most sustainable lie in history".   _________________________________________________________________________________________________
          
      
      
 
 On Sun,
         Feb 10, 2019 at 7:58 AM Richard Edmonds wrote:       On  the 25th. January 2019, at a ceremony at Vichy, France the  International Robert Faurisson
         prize for 2019 was awarded to Ursula  Haverbeck.
   The German lawyer, Wolfram Nahrath – who
         has represented Frau Haverbeck  in innumerable trials – accepted the International Robert Faurisson  prize in her place.
         In his Laudatio Herr Nahrath acknowledged, that it  was a great honour to receive the prize on behalf of his client.
   The full text of the Laudatio is as follows:
   Ladies and Gentlemen, esteemed committee, Michele Lady Renouf,
         Master Fallisi, the Honourable Mr. Nichols.
   It is for me a great honour to accept this prize on behalf of my client.
   My client, Frau Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel, last year celebrated her  ninetieth birthday, but it is not age or physical
         infirmity that has  hindered her from travelling to Vichy.
   No, she finds herself in prison in the Federal Republic
         of Germany. Last  year she was condemned in the first instance to three and a half years’  incarceration.  A series
         of further trials against her have been  planned and so it is not impossible that she may yet be condemned to  further years
         in prison. The possibility is not to be excluded that she  may spend the rest of her life in prison and die in prison. 
         
   Now everybody is going to ask, what type of fearful and dangerous  criminal is my client who has the criminal
         energy still to commit crimes  at her advanced age.  Is she the Godmother of a mafia-type criminal  organisation ? Has
         she robbed, murdered, wounded, cheated, stolen,  molested children, dealt in drugs, organised human-trafficking ?
   No, she has committed none of these offences. But in reference to her  rights of Freedom of Opinion, Freedom of Speech
         and Freedom of Enquiry,  she has exercised her personal right publicly to question and to comment  on one particular event,
         limited to a particular time and place. She  has done so in public and in her writings and at meetings where she was  the
         guest-speaker and she has distributed her literature widely. And,  Yes ? - just for this, people are going to ask, you can
         be locked up for  years in jail in the most free (and liberal) judicial ordering that has  ever existed in Germany ? Yes,
         this has happened and this is the fate  of the recipient of this prize.
   Originally Frau Haverbeck-Wetzel was part
         of the humanist movement and for years she was active in protecting the environment.
   But it is not a question
         of just any history. No we are dealing here  with the narrative of an organised mass-extermination of human beings,  mainly
         Jewish persons, employing poison gas and carried out on an  industrial scale right across Europe up till 1945,  and all
         as ordered  by the authorities of the Third Reich. You will all know the figure of  Six Million which over time has become
         the symbol of this narrative.  
   Since the year 1994 it has been a criminal offence in the Federal  Republic
         of Germany to deny or to approve or to minimise this particular  event.  The penalty for each offence can result in a
         five years’ prison  sentence. For each offence. The Law permits that an adult may be  incarcerated for up to a total
         of fifteen years.
   It is not my intention here to give a lecture on the political criminal  laws in Germany and
         other such lands. Allow me however to express some  thoughts. 
   The Federal Republic and its Basic Law [which serves
         as the  Constitution] has now been in existence for 70 years and the Federal  Republic managed successfully for its first
         forty years without  possessing any such provision in Law, [criminalising “disputing,  approving, minimising“
         that event], without there being any pogroms or  other such outrages committed against Jewish persons.
   It had
         taken ten years of continuing insidious agitation organised by  just a few individuals before the German Parliament passed
         this law. For  ten long years it was rejected. There was massive concern that the  proposal was contrary to the Basic Law
         and to human rights. By employing  all the means at their disposal the handful campaigners – I shall call  them here
         the shop-keepers – got what they wanted.
   Even after its embodiment in German Law, distinguished constitutional
          jurists and even former judges having served on the Federal  Constitutional Court at Karlsruhe opposed this provision; and
         even  prominent persons from the so-called “victim-folk” criticised this new  provision and demanded its abrogation;
         many of them even deny the  so-called “Holocaust”.
   In vain, the provision is still to this day part
         of the criminal code  and many have been jailed because of it, including she who has been  awarded this prize. In spite of
         her age, she was shown no clemency. Just  a few days ago, she, who no longer has any living relatives -they have  all passed
         away – she was refused permission to visit the grave of her  deceased husband, the humanist Werner Haverbeck. She had
         wanted to hold a  prayer there at the New Year. Refused.
   Ladies and Gentlemen I am speaking of the Federal Republic
         of Germany –  and not of some despotic banana-republic somewhere in the world. 
   I am of the opinion that
         the provision Article 130, section 3 of the  German Criminal Code does not belong in our Law books. [Article 130,  section
         3 criminalises “disputing, approving, minimising” the Six  Million]. The manner in which it became Law and the
         motivation of those  who made Law are in flagrant violation of the basic requirement of every  criminal code in which the
         conduct of an individual can only be  punished if there is a legitimate criminal case to answer. There is no  such legitimacy
         for Article 130, section 3, and not even partially so.
   The fundamental question is: why may I not dispute and
         debate historical  events ? Who finds such a prohibition useful ? Certainly not the man  who wants his Freedom of Speech.
         
   I myself was born in 1963. I have not personally experienced this  history. At school and in University I was
         educated to question  everything and to freely debate.  That was the Credo of our time. At  school and as a student we
         were allowed to dispute, to doubt and deny as  much as we wanted without being punished. Any restrictions placed on  what
         we might think or say or on what books or other literature we might  read, such restrictions would have seen as a sacrilege
         against our  rights to Freedom – and this remains so today.
   Such prohibitions make the thinking, enquiring
         man only suspicious.  To the right of a free, unforced development of one’s personality  belongs  the right
         to participate with one’s own opinions and  convictions in debates and in opposition to others all within the law  and
         also to obtain information freely and unhindered and so to form  one’s own convictions.  
   Finally it
         is an inherent right of every individual to defend the  community to which he belongs – that is, his people –
         from false and  wicked accusations including the wickedest.
   Therefore he has the right to attempt to argue against
         the accusation  that as an historical fact members of his people had committed a  genocide and thereby covered themselves
         in shame. If subjected to the  threat of years’ long imprisonment he can not defend his people, then  his soul will
         sicken.   
   To find oneself confronted with legally enforced prohibitions of many  sorts, thought-prohibitions,
         information-prohibitions,  research-prohibitions, and Freedom of speech prohibitions, all focussed  on a very special event,
         and when under compulsion of severe punishment  one to have to remain silent, even though one is convinced of a very  different
         understanding of the matter, all this creates an oppression  which can immediately lead to severe crises of the personality,
         or in  any case can harm the free development of the personality. Such  oppression is alien to the contemporary Justice system.
   This is what happens, I would like once more to stress, when one wants  to defend one’s people and its history
         from the most slanderous of  accusations.
   I will permit myself to briefly classify this law. It is a law born
         from  the religion of the book. And such a law, I reject most fundamentally. 
   I ask for forgiveness that I as
         the defence lawyer for Frau Haverbeck have not been able to keep her out of jail. 
   Ladies and Gentlemen, members
         of the esteemed committee, 
   This is the first time that this prize has been awarded; and it shows  the generosity
         of the sponsors and their determination to establish  Peace in Freedom. What is special in this first case is that she to
         whom  the award has been given, is a German woman. A woman from the so-called  guilty, criminal-folk. A woman of noble spirit,
         full of the joy of life  and always laughing, good natured and courageous. 
   If not already previously, then by
         the award of this prize is she  ennobled. Ennobled on French soil by men and women from a people who  have had to fight many
         bloody and bitter wars with Germany; ennobled as a  German woman campaigning for the rights of Freedom.
   This is
         for me and my humiliated and downcast but so beloved German folk  an especially high honour. In the name of she who has been
         given this  award, I thank the esteemed committee from depths of my soul. A sign to  give hope for Freedom and Peace.
   Wolfram Nahrath, German Lawyer.                                      
      
    
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