The extremist German movement is – or was, if you’re optimistic – well-armed, prepared and determined to seize power.
was apparently the largest in postwar German history. Early on Wednesday morning, some 3000 officers swept across 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as locations in Austria and Italy, arresting at least 25 people – including a Russian woman – and questioning many more.
Masked police officers lead Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, centre, to a police vehicle during a raid against so-called ‘Reich citizens’ in Frankfurt, Germany.With this crackdown, it appears, the Germans disrupted plans for a full-bore, a word that has migrated into English. The Weimar Republic survived several attempted coups until it succumbed in 1933. The US used to think it was immune to such sedition, until it too had to withstand an attack on its Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The QAnon subculture of mad ravings, early reports from this week’s raid say, certainly formed part of the mental backdrop of the suspected plotters. But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism., or “imperial citizens”. Distinct from neo-Nazis, these– estimated to number in the tens of thousands – believe the federal republic of Germany does not actually exist.
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