He was the founder and director in 1933 of the German Imperial Federation of Nation and Homeland [de], as well as writer and publisher, historian, folklorist and parson of The Christian Community.
[9] Haverbeck-Wetzel was born in Winterscheid [de] (today part of Gilserberg) and as an adolescent, she was a member of the Jungmädelbund, the female wing of the Hitler Youth for girls aged 10 to 13.
After her husband's death in 1999, she took over many of his functions including chair of the international adult education establishment Heimvolkshochschule Collegium Humanum in Vlotho, which they both had founded in 1963.
[2] The registered association was established in May 1992 with the statute to build a dignified remembrance for the German civilian victims of World War II by bombing, abduction, expulsion and detention centres, to end "the unjustified unilateral nature of the view of history and struggle to overcome the [negatives of the] past" (German: um "die ungerechtfertigte Einseitigkeit der Geschichtsbetrachtung und Vergangenheitsbewältigung" zu beenden).
Additionally, other Holocaust deniers, including Ernst Zündel (Canada), Robert Faurisson (France), Jürgen Graf (Switzerland), Gerd Honsik (Austria), Fredrick Töben (Australia), Germar Rudolf, Wilhelm Stäglich, Hans-Dietrich Sander [de], Manfred Roeder, Frank Rennicke and Anneliese Remer were also involved in its establishment.
[1][16] In the house journal of the Collegium Humanum, the Voice of Conscience (Stimme des Gewissens), she had introduced a form of denial of the Holocaust,[16] together with the editor of the magazine, Ernst-Otto Cohrs.
Packaged in a citation by the Russian newspaper Russkiy Vestnik (the Russian Messenger) who had published in Russia a special revisionist analysis issue of Jürgen Graf's work, with the special Russkiy Vestnik issue later cited favourably in Moscow's newspaper Pravda by Valentin Prussakov,[citation needed] it was alleged that the number of Jewish victims of National Socialism did not amount to six million, but to "only" about 500,000.
[18] Another article by Haverbeck-Wetzel in the Voice of Conscience (November/December 2005) posited a thesis that Adolf Hitler was "just not to be understood from the believed Holocaust or his alleged war obsession, but only by a divine mission in the world-historical context".
[citation needed] In June 2009, the District Court of Bad Oeynhausen found Haverbeck-Wetzel guilty of offending Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, who had earlier publicly advocated censorship of the Collegium Humanum Holocaust-deniers tools.
[20] In the ARD television broadcast series Panorama produced by NDR in March 2015, and despite proceedings prohibiting, Haverbeck-Wetzel again denied the mass destruction of the Jews and discussed her views.
[22][23][21][24] Haverbeck-Wetzel published a video on YouTube protesting against the trial of Oskar Gröning, the so-called "Accountant of Auschwitz", and distributed leaflets outside the court which were reported to feature Holocaust denial.
[29] In September 2016, Haverbeck-Wetzel was sentenced to ten months imprisonment for Holocaust denial, without the option for parole, but remained free until an appeal was heard concerning the earlier case.
[33] In February 2017, she was sentenced in Detmold to ten months for incitement to hatred and slandering the memory of the deceased (Verunglimpfung des Andenkens Verstorbener), after she shared Holocaust denial brochures after her September 2016 trial.