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Posted By richards on June 14, 2017

Hungary has returned right-wing extremist Horst Mahler to Germany after he fled to avoid servingout the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism.

Mahler, 81, was transferred late last week into German custody at Budapests Ferenc Liszt Airport, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. He was arrested May 15 in the Hungarian city of Sopron while trying to cross intoAustria.

He hadaskedHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban forpolitical asylum in a letter he published May 12 on the internet. Referring to Orban as the Fuehrer of the Hungarian nation, Mahlersaid he placed his fate in the hands of his government. A Budapest court ordered his extradition earlier this month.

In April, Mahler had been ordered to return to the Brandenburg/Havelcorrectional facility onMay 19to begin serving the final stretch ofa 10-year sentence handed down in 2009. He had been releasedtemporarily for health reasons and reportedly had part of a legamputated due to an infection.

Despite the health problems, he allegedly continued to give talksto neo-Nazi audiences, as recently as April. According to DieZeit newspaper, Mahler spoke in January to right-wing extremist audienceson such topics as Jewry is the real enemy and the so-called plan byJews to destroy the German people.

The one-time founder of the far-left Red Army Faction terror groupfamously underwent a transformation in the 1990s to the extreme right.He served as a lawyer for the right-extremist National DemocraticParty of Germany until he left the party in 2003.

In November 2007, he was sentenced to six months in jail for raisinghis arm in the illegal Hitler salute to greet his jailers whileserving a previous sentence.

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Holocaust denier who fled jail term sent back to Germany - Cleveland Jewish News

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