Last week, 25 people across Germany were arrested for plotting what authorities have called a coup against the German state. A historian discusses the plot, and how the German far right views the country’s past.
Last week, German Special Forces and police arrested twenty-five people across the country for plotting what authorities have called a coup against the German state. The scheme, by turns sinister and farcical, called for executing or exiling current political leaders, and for sabotaging the electricity grid; many of the plotters were storing weapons.
Before 1871, Germany was not a united country. It was split up into thirty-nine separate states, varying from Prussia, which was a kingdom that covered most of north Germany, down to tiny little statelets, as it were, one of which was Reuss, whose hereditary prince, even though he didn’t have any power, is the leading figure in the Reichsbürger movement. So you had all these different states.
One issue that may have prompted the prince of Reuss is the German unification in 1990, when East Germany was absorbed into West Germany with institutional continuity. The Federal Republic extended to the southeast, basically. And that opened up the whole issue of restitution of properties seized by the Soviet Union in its occupation of East Germany after the Second World War.
Yeah, that’s right. I mean, Hitler was not a conservative, whatever else he was. He managed to get support from people who wanted to bring back the old monarchy. Remember, that’s in 1918, so it’s quite recent in historical terms. And when he came to power, in 1933, he made it quite clear that he did not want to restore the monarchy. He was the leader. He was the great dictator. He wasn’t going to have anybody else get in the way.
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