‘Terrible mistake’: German neo-Nazi’s ashes buried in Jewish scholar’s plot

Bishop says church looking into moving urn, amid claims plot was deliberately chosen by extremists

The church management of a cemetery outside Berlin has said it made a terrible mistake" by allowing the ashes of a prominent Holocaust denier to be buried in the gravesite of a Jewish-born musicologist.

Henry Hafenmayer, a 48-year-old neo-Nazi activist, was laid to rest last Friday at Stahnsdorf South-Western cemetery in Brandenburg in a ceremony that was attended by notorious rightwing extremists including Horst Mahler, the founding member of the Baader-Meinhof group turned neo-Nazi.