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|Red Army Faction |Socialist German Student Union | }} |occupation = LawyerPolitical activist }} Horst Mahler (born 23 January 1936) is a German former lawyer and political activist.〔 (''Mahler kein Anwalt mehr'' ), n-tv.de, 19 August 2009.〕 He once was an extreme-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction, but later became a Maoist before switching to the extreme right. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Since 2003, he has repeatedly been convicted of ''Volksverhetzung'' ("incitement of popular hatred") and Holocaust denial and is currently serving a twelve-year prison sentence. == Life == Mahler was born at Haynau〔Now Chojnów, Poland.〕 in Silesia on 23 January 1936, the son of a dentist. In February 1945, as the end of World War II in Europe began, the family fled from the approaching Red Army to Naumburg an der Saale. Less than a year later, they moved to Dessau and then, after Mahler's fathera fanatical Nazi and anti-semitecommitted suicide in 1949, to West Berlin.〔The Baader Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust, 2008〕 Mahler took his school-leaving exams in Wilmersdorf, Berlin in 1955 and then studied Law at the Free University of Berlin. He joined the Thuringia Association, a right-wing student fraternity but soon afterwards became a member of the socialist student body SDS.〔 Mahler was one of the founders of the Republican Club, a West Berlin leftist organisation established in 1966. He later became well known as a defender of left-wing students taken to court.〔 In 1970, he became a founding member of the leftist terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, and was subsequently imprisoned. While in jail, he became a Maoist, but later turned sharply to the right. In 2000, he joined the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) and represented it in court. In an interview in 2005 with an Israeli reporter, Naftali Glicksberg, Mahler claimed that he is partly of Jewish descent. He described how his mother, bursting into tears, told him and his brothers that they have Jewish ancestry and are one-eighth Jewish.〔http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-3066208,00.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horst Mahler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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