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10/09/2008: "Left-wing terrorist turned neo-Nazi tried for Holocaust denial"
A founding member of a left-wing terrorist group who later became a neo-Nazi was tried in Germany on Wednesday over charges that he published documents denying the Holocuast on the Internet.
Horst Mahler - a founding member of the Red Army Faction in 1970 - is accused of regularly posting documents online between 2001 and 2004.
Denial of the Nazi Holocaust is a crime in Germany. Mahler has been charged with incitement and faces up to five years in prison if convicted. The Potsdam state court trial is the latest case against the 72-year-old attorney, who was sentenced to 11 months in prison in July last year for giving the stiff-armed Nazi salute when he reported to prison after a conviction in a separate case.
[ Mahler is wasting years of his life by continuing to talk about a detail of history that results in pointless convinctions such as these. Surely he has an important message to convey about the failings of modern society that is still possible to express legally - albeit with caution? ]
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027607.html