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I’m guessing the group is more familiar to Germans (I’m in the US) but I find wiki helpful. It’s not a monolithic movement but they basically want to go back to
by rsfern 4y ago
I’m guessing the group is more familiar to Germans (I’m in the US) but I find wiki helpful. It’s not a monolithic movement but they basically want to go back to the German Reich circa 1918, and they have some kind of provisional government that’s supposed to be a continuation of this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbürger_movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbürger_movement
- freilanzer 4y agoThis group is about the German Empire in 1971, apparently.
- rsfern 4y agoDo you mean 1871? Wiki says 1871-1918 German Empire and that the first sort of shadow government from this group was founded in 1985
- 082349872349872 4y agoshould be familiar to USians as well (imagine SovCits mit Lederhosen): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33893138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33893138 PS: my current favourite Los Angeles/Münich mashup is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI Edit: as far as I know (not being in either country) Reichsbürger and SovCits are a fringe in both, but far more of an obvious fringe in Deutschland than in the US.