Twenty-five supporters of a group preparing to violently overthrow the German state were detained by German authorities on Wednesday.
According to prosecutors, the group was inspired by the Reichsbuerger movement, a group denying the legitimacy of the modern German state, and instead insisting that the “Deutsches Reich” still exists, despite it being dissolved in World War Two when the Nazis were defeated.
The plot entailed a former member of a German royal family, identified as Heinrich XIII P.R. under Germany’s privacy law, becoming the leader of a future state. Another suspect, identified as Ruediger v. P., would lead the military arm, according to prosecutors….