German rightist jailed for Hitler salute

[Marcus Marulus]

German rightist jailed for Hitler salute

23 November 2007

Berlin - A prominent right-wing extremist received a six- month jail sentence on Friday for giving a Hitler salute - a punishable offence in Germany.

Horst Mahler, 71, was convicted of making the outlawed gesture when he entered prison in November last year to serve a sentence for another crime.

Mahler was not present when the verdict was handed down at the regional court in Cottbus, 150 kilometres south-east of Berlin.
A lawyer who defends neo-Nazis and has convictions for sedition and glorifying crime, Mahler had his passport invalidated for six months last year so he could not attend a Holocaust denial conference in Iran.

On a previous occasion, Mahler's passport was withdrawn to prevent him travelling to Auschwitz in Poland and denying there the genocide of the Jews.

Since 1945, the Nazis' murder of an estimated 6 million Jews has been exhaustively documented by prosecutors and historians from Germany and many other nations using eyewitness testimony, archival records and recovery of human remains.

A handful of pro-Nazi historians described as revisionists claim the Holocaust did not happen.

Mahler, who in the 1970s supported far-left terrorism in Germany and was a founder of the Red Army Faction, has also been fined by German courts for praising the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

DPA

[source]

[Amorsite]

DPA is very biased, every paragraph they write is more twisted and disgusting. These marxists get away with putting people in prison for their ideas in 2007 and noone even cares.