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Friday, October 17, 2008

Another Holocaust Denier On Trial


Horst Mahler, the former lawyer of the neo-Nazi party NPD and a figure of the extreme-right in Germany, went on trial in the city of Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, on charges of Holocaust denial.
The 72-year-old Mahler, is prosecuted for “incitement to racial hatred ", the magistrates' court said, adding that he is accused of having published on the Internet several texts denying the Holocaust.

A founding member of the Red Army Faction terrorist group in 1970 before turning neo-Nazi, Mahler is accused of regularly posting documents online between 2001 and 2004.

Denial of the Holocaust is a crime in Germany and Mahler faces up to five years in prison if convicted.


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