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Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is anything but a joke

26 November 2023

4:51 AM

26 November 2023

4:51 AM

They don’t believe the German state exists, they make their own passports and they want the German monarchy restored. It’s tempting to dismiss the so-called Reichsbürger movement as a bunch of deranged conspiracy theorists. But the movement is growing, increasingly well-connected and willing to use violence to overthrow the state.

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