Siegfried Verbeke: key obituary facts
Is Siegfried Verbeke dead? Yes. Siegfried Verbeke died on June 27, 2026, at age 85.
Cause of death: Siegfried Verbeke's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Siegfried Verbeke known for?
He was a Belgian Holocaust denier.
More about Siegfried Verbeke
Siegfried Verbeke, a Belgian Holocaust denier and revisionist publisher, died on June 27, 2026, at the age of 85.
Born in Antwerp on June 21, 1941, he became a public figure in 1977 when he and Roeland Raes founded the Flemish denial magazine Haro, which circulated recordings of speeches by Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. Verbeke was also associated with the Vlaamse Militanten Orde and later drew legal attention for distributing Holocaust-denial material, including pamphlets sent in the Netherlands in the early 1990s.
In 1993, a Belgian court gave him a suspended prison sentence and removed his civil rights for 10 years after he was convicted of distributing pamphlets belittling the Holocaust.