A German grandmother, Ursula Haverbeck, was recently sentenced by a German court to 10 months in prison for publicly denying that the Holocaust ever happened. The 87-year-old Haverbeck is well known throughout Germany for her staunch Nazi beliefs and had even gone on television to deny that the murder of at least 6 million people in death camps by the Nazi’s had ever happened.

On Thursday, she was in court in the German city of Hamburg where she confronted her accusers with a venomous tongue, according to Fox News. She told the court that such places as Auschwitz was not a Nazi prison and death camp and there is no proof ever presented that it had been. She said it is only a misguided belief held by many who have sought to demonize the Nazi regime that ruled Germany from 1933-1945.

Haverbeck dared the judge to prove to her that the death camps existed and the judge replied that he wasn’t about to argue with someone “who can’t accept the facts.” The judge also told her that he was under no obligaton to prove to her that the world was also round. The crime she was charged with in Germany is inciting hatred. Havebeck is known throughout Germany as the Nazi Grandma. There is nothing “neo” about her Nazi-ism at all.

Haverbeck once ran a center devoted to conservative principles, except that they were so far to the right that her center was eventually shut down by the government for disseminating Nazi propaganda in 2008. There was quite the crowd of followers for her packing the courtroom as well as assembling outside the courthouse in the street. She was convicted of inciting hatred and sentenced to 10 months in prison. In Germany that crime can be charged to anyone that spreads Nazi propaganda or denies that The Holocaust happened.

When the allied armies began to pour into Germany and beyond in 1945 they had heard rumors about such death camps. It wasn’t until the American and British armies began to liberate them that they began to understand that the death camps were real and the horror was right there in front of him.

The Supreme Allied Commander for Europe during World War II was General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower. When he went into Europe following the D-Day invasion, he went into the camps with the men. When he got to the first camp he ordered that soldiers be sent into the town and the surrounding areas and they were to bring everyone they found into the camp. He then, at gunpoint, made all of the villagers tour the camp to see the horror of it.

After that, he made it a standing order that any camp that was liberated, the same must be done for the townspeople located in the town where the death camp was and that their tour of the camp must be filmed. The reason he did that, he said, was because he knew that, some day, someone somewhere would declare that none of this had ever happened.