Horst Mahler, a German Holocaust denier who was once a far-left militant, dies at 89

Source: Associated Press

Horst Mahler, a German Holocaust denier who was once a far-left militant, dies at 89

Updated 7:33 AM EDT, July 28, 2025

BERLIN (AP) — Horst Mahler, a founding member of the left-wing Red Army Faction militant group who later became a right-wing extremist and accumulated a series of convictions, including for Holocaust denial, has died, a lawyer who represented him said Monday. He was 89.

Mahler died on Sunday at a hospital in Berlin, Jan Dollwetzel, who represented Mahler at a trial in 2023, told German news agency dpa.

Mahler, born on Jan. 23, 1936, became a lawyer and in 1969 defended militants Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin in a trial. Shortly afterward, he went on to found the Red Army Faction with them.

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In the 1990s, Mahler switched to the opposite political extreme, becoming a member of the far-right National Democratic Party for a few years. He represented the party in 2001 in its case against an unsuccessful attempt by authorities to ban it.


Mahler racked up several convictions for denying the Holocaust, ...

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