A German court slapped another five-year prison term on a neo-Nazi for denying the Holocaust, after a separate court sentenced him to six years on the same charges.��
The two sentences would be served concurrently.
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Lawyers for 73-year-old Horst Mahler, who was immediately incarcerated, said they would appeal the new five-year-two-month sentence.
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Judges in Potsdam, near Berlin, found Mahler guilty of denying the Holocaust on numerous occasions, which is a crime in Germany.
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A co-founder of the militant far-left Red Army Faction (RAF) in the 1970s, Mahler later swung violently extreme-right, vehemently disputing that Nazis had systematically exterminated six million European Jews during WWII.
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Last month, a court in Munich sentenced Mahler to six years in jail for calling the Holocaust "the biggest lie in history."
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He was also found to have sent offensive CD-ROMs and a book by convicted Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf through the mail.
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Mahler was a member of the most radical extreme-right party in Germany, the NPD, between 2000 and 2003 before quitting because he found it "outdated."
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He has a string of convictions, including for crimes dating back to his time with the RAF, which carried out a bloody campaign against the West German government.
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Last April, he was convicted for giving a Hitler salute to Jewish journalist Michel Friedman in an interview and denying the Holocaust.
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He has also praised the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and has accused Jews of seeking "world domination."
(Source: AFP)
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