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    2025-07-27

    1936-01-2390 years, 9 months, and 18 days old

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    Place of birth:

    Haynau, Germany [now Chojnów, Poland]

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Male

    Biography

    Horst Mahler was a German former lawyer and political activist. He first came to fame as a lawyer for the left-wing activists of the 1968 movement. He was a co-founder of the RAF in 1970, the same year he ended up in prison. After his release, he was involved in right-wing extremist circles and defended right-wing extremists in court. Further years in prison followed until he was released in 2020. Mahler denied the Holocaust and made anti-Semitic statements.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 6

    Title
    Germany in Autumn
    Self
    6.4
    1978-03-03
    1.0566
    The Lawyers
    Self
    5.7
    2009-11-19
    0.9635
    The RAF: The Red Army Fraction
    Self
    0
    2007-03-25
    0.2554
    International Terrorism Since 1945
    Self (archive footage)
    8
    2009-01-05
    1.7092
    The History of the RAF
    Self (Archive footage)
    7.5
    2015-01-08
    1.4611
    World in Action
    7
    1963-01-01
    30.5246
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