Conviction for Volksverhetzung (§ 130 StGB): a shopkeeper displayed a shop-window sign reading "JUDEN haben hier Hausverbot!!!" ("Jews are banned from entering"); sentenced to six months' imprisonment (suspended). Such an anti-Semitic statement does not fall within the scope of protection afforded by freedom of expression (Article 5(1) of the Basic Law): It undermines the human dignity (Article 1(1) of the Basic Law) of Jews living in Germany by, on the basis of the history of Nazi persecution, denying them any right to social recognition and respect across the board and defaming them as ‘non-persons’.

§ 130 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 und Nr. 2 StGB.