Horst Mahler

Horst Mahler was a German former lawyer and political activist He first came to fame as a lawyer for the leftwing activists of the 1968 movement He was a cofounder of the RAF in 1970 the same year he ended up in prison After his release he was involved in rightwing extremist circles and defended rightwing extremists in court Further years in prison followed until he was released in 2020 Mahler denied the Holocaust and made antiSemitic statements