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Germany raids far-right group over plot to install prince in coup

Germany on Wednesday detained 25 members and supporters of a far-right group that the prosecutor's office said was preparing a violent overthrow of the state to install as national leader a prince who had sought support from Russia.

Prosecutors said the group was inspired by the deep state conspiracy theories of Germany's Reichsbuerger and QAnon, whose advocates were among those arrested after the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.

Members of the Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich) do not recognise modern-day Germany as a legitimate state. Some of them are devoted to the German empire under monarchy, while some are adherents of Nazi ideas and others believe Germany is under military occupation.
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Germany raids far-right group over plot to install prince in coup

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in reply to Joseph Teller

Joseph Teller
Joseph Teller
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Wrong Prince... they meant a real one, descendent from one of the old royal German Families before 1919.
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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Except as the article notes all the nobility was disbanded in Germany in 1919, there are no princes.
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Joseph Teller
Joseph Teller
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Yes the royalty of Germany and Austria had their titles made moot and their lands seized at the end of the war, as did the Ottoman Empire, but still they kept track of these things among themselves etc. Nothing new, same happened when the French Revolution happened (not all of them were inside the country to be beheaded), and the collapse of other monarchies at various points in history. Still they and some amount of surviving retinues and descendants evidently hold on to their history and hope (and history has shown weirder things, Remember that Charles I of England was Beheaded, and then so was the man who did the deed, and then Charles II took the throne after him).
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Noam Bergman
Noam Bergman
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Will their first order of business be to chase away the Romans? Or to fight Napoleon, perhaps.

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