Overview

• He died on July 27 in a Berlin hospital at age 89, his attorney Jan Dollwetzel confirmed to dpa.
• Mahler co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970, a group whose campaign of bombings and robberies killed 34 people and wounded hundreds.
• After renouncing left-wing violence in prison, he swung to far-right extremism in the 1990s and joined the National Democratic Party of Germany.
• German courts convicted him multiple times for Holocaust denial and antisemitic hate speech, resulting in roughly ten years behind bars and a trial suspended in 2023 due to ill health.
• In 2017 he fled to Hungary seeking asylum but was extradited back to Germany to complete his sentence, which he finished in 2020.