As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.

Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Red Army Faction who later became a right-wing extremist, has died at 89

One of Germany’s most notorious postwar antisemitic agitators has died at 89.Horst Mahler, who founded the German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction in 1970 and later championed neo-Nazis, died in a Berlin hospital on Sunday,