German Neo-Nazi Holocaust denier convicted

A prominent German neo-Nazi has again been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to eight months in prison.

The Detmold state court said on Friday that 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck said she plans to appeal the decision.

Haverbeck wrote a February letter to the mayor of Detmold when a former Auschwitz guard was going on trial there, claiming the notorious Nazi death camp was only a labour camp, and called survivors "alleged witnesses".

Haverbeck was most recently convicted of Holocaust denial in 2015 for a similar statement in an interview outside the trial of another former Auschwitz guard in Lueneburg.

She was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in that case but remains free as her appeal is heard.

Both guards were convicted of multiple counts of accessory to murder and are appealing.