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Among her repeated claims, made on television and in courts, was that the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was not an extermination camp. German government records show that at least 1.1 million people were murdered there alone.
Her comments made her a favorite with far-right extremists, and she even ran for the European Parliament in 2019 as the top candidate for the neo-Nazi party Die Rechte (“The Right”).
Germany is one of 17 European countries that, along with Israel and Canada, have laws listing Holocaust denial as a punishable offense.
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