Horst Mahler

Horst Mahler (; 23 January 1936 – 27 July 2025) was a German lawyer and political activist. Mahler kein Anwalt mehr, n-tv.de, 19 August 2009. He was a far-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction. He later became a supporter of neo-Nazism. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. 

Starting in 2003, he was convicted of Holocaust denial and served a twelve-year prison sentence. In April 2017, Mahler was ordered back to prison for another three and a half years. On 18 April 2017, he tried to escape from Germany to avoid prison. He was deported back to Germany, where he was arrested and put back in jail.

Mahler was released from prison in October 2020.Süddeutsche Zeitung: 

Mahler died on 27 July 2025 in Berlin, Germany at the age of 89.

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