Description: (German Far-Left Political Activist Who Later Turned to Right-Wing Politics)
Horst Mahler, a former lawyer and political activist from Germany, has been associated with a series of extremist ideologies over the course of his career. Beginning as a far-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction, he later transitioned to Maoism before eventually embracing neo-Nazism. He briefly joined the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Mahler has faced multiple convictions for incitement of hatred and Holocaust denial, leading to several stints in prison.