A 87-year-old woman from the German village Vlotho has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for her denial of the Holocaust. The woman, Ursula Haverbeck had in February in a letter to Mayor Rainer Heller Detmold denied the crimes committed in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. It was a labor camp, she said.
The lawyer Reinhold Hanning, a former camp guard at Auschwitz, has requested acquittal for his client. The lawyer said Saturday before a court in the German city of Detmold that there is no evidence for the direct involvement of the 94-year-old Hanning at mass murder.
At a mass brawl between asylum seekers in Bielefeld late Saturday at least five men were seriously injured. They walked skull and brain injuries, lacerations, bone fractures in face and hand. The police went to the Yazidis in Iraq and Chechens, which clashed.
Reinhold Hanning, a former camp guard at Auschwitz, on Friday for the court in Detmold expressed regret about his past.,, I am ashamed that I have seen it wrong and I do not have to protest, '' said the 94-year-old according to German media in a statement.,, I am truly sorry. ''
The former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning did during the four days that his trial is going on not said a word. The 94-year-old suspect reacts only with silence on the statements of witnesses the prosecution called to the court in the German city of Detmold.
Some seventy years could freely walk around Auschwitz ruthless guards. But shortly before the Nazi grandfather's death, the German justice still in action. Yesterday again was a former SS to the gate.
In the western German city of Detmold must Thursday a 93-year occur because of his past during the Holocaust. Reinhold Hanning is the former warden of Auschwitz suspected of complicity in the murder of 170,000 people for sure.
The German prosecutor brings a 93- year-old man to trial for complicity in murder in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Doctors have indicated that there are no medical objections to judge the man.
