An eastern Germany court has sentence a neo-Nazi leader Horset Mahler, 71, to six months in jail for giving the Hitler salute, in violation of German law. Mahler has a past record of crimes against extremists on both the left and right.

He confessed to giving the Nazi salute last year when he began to serve a jail sentence for a different crime, one of six for which he has been convicted. Several of those include denying the Holocaust and praising the September, 2001 terrorists attacks in the United States as "eminently efficient."