planned coup prevented in Germany

[The_J]

Authorities in Germany name arrested alleged members of all coup plot

German police staged nationwide raids on Wednesday and arrested 25 people suspected of belonging to a far-right "terror cell" plotting to overthrow the government and attack parliament.

www.euronews.com

In short:
Germany has some alt-right scene, which consists out of anti-covid nutjobs, nazis, and also the "Reich citizens". The latter consider themself to be citizens of the German empire, and deny that the current state of Germany rightfully exists. They claim that the constitution is unlawful, try to not pay taxes, and just everything to not recognize the state.
Today more than 3000 police officers searched 130 sites in Germany, Austria and Italy, due to a planned coup. Apparently the nutters planned to install the 13th (or 113th, or 213th, apparently they re-number every 100) heir of a minor Thuringian noble family as the new head of state.
So far, so crazy.
Concerning is that one of the persons arrested is a former member of parliament, belonging to the far-right "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) party, currently serving as a judge.
Otherwise I'm surprised about the amount of people involved. I wonder if a half-year later we'd have had an actual coup attempt.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is Kalinigrad part of the reich?

 

[Hygro]

Germans cosplaying Americans

 

[amadeus]

If we’re going to have a proper koenigreich we need a real Hohenzollern!

Heinrich XIII? Nuts to you.

 

[uppi]

Otherwise I'm surprised about the amount of people involved. I wonder if a half-year later we'd have had an actual coup attempt.

The question is, how many people they could have mobilized and whether that would have been enough for a serious coup attempt (as opposed to something that would be more like a terrorist attack). The 19 people arrested would obviously not be enough,, but they probably banked on recruiting more.

Fortunately, we probably will never know.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

This sort of thing is going on in numerous places. Some of the Freedumb Convoy participants had intentions of killing RCMP officers at Coutts (they blocked the international border), and some in Ottawa wanted Trudeau to step down. There were death threats.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Sounds like a copycat of the failed for Trump insurrection.

 

[r16]

the German War against the Empire . Will fall on dethroned dynasties for their lack of interest in talking sense to evil Russians to convince them to provide cheap oil and free gas to EU , chiefly Germany . Heinrich whatever would be like Was, was?

 

[Kyriakos]

See, this is how paradox games encourage nazism; imagine the discussion in that forum about this topic, with all those weirdos from the Kaiserreich mod

 

[Smellincoffee]

Germans cosplaying Americans

Sounds like a copycat of the failed for Trump insurrection.

As Biden would say, two words: Beer Hall Putsch.

 

[Senethro]

Its a joke and a non-threat by cosplayers and nutcases until very suddenly it isn't.

 

[r16]

hhmpf , actually went to the Mudpit section of TWC and there is nothing there ! Where is the fight , man , where is the fight ?

 

[Fippy]

Depends on how many from the military & police were involved, i mean they wouldn't overthrow anything with 3 soldiers..

 

[r16]

hmm , another day nobody understands r16 . As for the topic , am willing to enlarge the claim none of the arrested or investigated knew they were plotting a coup in a timeframe in which America crushes Communism with a rounding error of the defence budgets .

 

[GenMarshall]

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If we’re going to have a proper koenigreich we need a real Hohenzollern!

Heinrich XIII? Nuts to you.

Kaiser Wilhelm II called, he wants his flags of the German Empire back.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

i wonder if this is real or if it's like the "plots" us fbi uncovers lately. 130 places is a lot, so possibly it's legit something that was being planned?

 

[Lexicus]

It doesn't seem like a lot of Germans would want to ditch the Federal Republic for a monarchy.

 

[r16]

once again everyone missing the key word here . One Russian . Russians are Right Wing , Russians were Left Wing , Nazis were Socialists , Russians can not be that smart . The Kommissar order . See , people act confused when they are told the results of the WW II will be not be reversed . They claim they don't understand .

 

[amadeus]

Kaiser Wilhelm II called, he wants his flags of the German Empire back.

Fun fact: that photo was taken in 1990 and the German chancellor at the time Kohl had implied that the 1945 Oder-Neisse line was not the boundary between Germany and Poland.

That was shot down really, really quickly.

 

[r16]

ı thought that deal was not true ? Like we are talking about Soviet guarantees to NATO now ?