Association for the rehabilitation of those persecuted for denying the Holocaust

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The Association for the Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Contesting the Holocaust (VRBHV) was an association founded in 2003 by well-known historical revisionists that actively denied the Holocaust . On May 7, 2008 the association was banned as an anti-constitutional organization by the then Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble .

history

The association registered in Berlin was founded in Vlotho on November 9, 2003, the 65th anniversary of the anti-Semitic November pogroms in 1938 .

The founders were among others:

It was headed by the Swiss right-wing extremist Bernhard Schaub , with Ursula Haverbeck acting as his deputy . The managing director was a right-wing extremist from Berlin. Udo Walendy was temporarily chairman. In 2004 the number of members was around 120 nationwide. The association maintained particularly close relationships with the Collegium Humanum, also based in Vlotho and run by Haverbeck-Wetzel and Schaub, and the affiliated association “Bauernhilfe e. V. “(both also banned in May 2008) and the German College .

The association organized conferences at irregular intervals, most of which took place in the Vlotho conference center of the Collegium Humanum, but also in other locations throughout Germany such as Mosbach (Thuringia) . These actions were monitored by the federal and state authorities for the protection of the constitution and were regularly mentioned in the authorities' annual reports. The agitation of the VRBHV has already led to several legal proceedings for violating Section 130 of the German Criminal Code (3) (sedition).

The purpose of the VRBHV was "through organized efforts to abolish the previously prevailing isolation of the persecuted, to guarantee their struggle for justice the necessary public awareness and to provide the financial means for a successful legal battle". The concern was the "resumption of criminal proceedings that led to a conviction for denial or trivialization of the Holocaust in accordance with Section 130 StGB Paragraphs 3 and 4 StGB." According to the assessment of the constitutional protection authorities, a further important objective was generally the so-called " Fight against the Auschwitz lie ”. The resumption of the trials and training events were intended to arouse broader interest in denying the genocide of the Jews under National Socialism. The association attempted to bundle different right-wing extremist lines of argument such as revisionism and denial of the Holocaust, the Reich citizenship movement and denial of the system, as well as conspiracy theories and extreme right-wing esotericism .

The founding of the association did not initially lead to the revival of their agitation expected by the Holocaust deniers.

Successor organizations

literature

  • Gerd Alt: Holocaust denier in a state of war. The “Association for the Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Contesting the Holocaust”. In: The Right Edge No. 99, January / February 2006.

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ BMI press release of May 7, 2008 ( Memento of June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Verfassungsschutz Report Berlin 2004, published 2005, p. 223.
  3. ↑ Patterns of argumentation in right-wing extremist anti-Semitism, Current Developments, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Ed.), November 2005, p. 19 available online ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  4. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Brandenburg 2003, published in 2004, p. 120 available online (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  5. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2004 ( Memento from May 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.64 MB) May 2005, p. 113