A Lausanne court has ruled against a former high school history teacher who filed a suit against a newspaper that referred to her as “a brown teacher”, a reference to the color of the shirts worn by Nazi militants.
The court also fined the teacher about $3,000, about half of which went to cover court expenses.
Three years ago, the teacher, whose name is not known, denied the existence of Nazi concentration camps. She was subsequently fired and lost her rank as an officer in the military reserve.
A year ago, she filed a claim against the Swiss daily Bieler Tagblatt, which had published that she was a “brown teacher”.
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