The defendant, a retiree who had been in a long-standing legal dispute (over 36 years) regarding the recognition of her German citizenship, sent an email to several press offices, the Federal Constitutional Court, and the Federal Ministry of Justice. In this email, she equated her personal legal struggle and her treatment by German officials with the systematic persecution of German Jews under the Nazi regime. The court held that by equating her personal fate with the fate of Jews destined for extermination, the defendant qualitatively and quantitatively devalued the Holocaust.

§ 130 Abs.3 StGB; § 6 Abs. 1 des Völkerstrafgesetzbuches