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Dec 2022
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The Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Germany’...

The New York Times
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Three thousand security officers fanned out across Germany this past week, raiding 150 homes, arresting 25 people and putting more than 50 others under investigation for plotting to overthrow the national government in Berlin. The target of the counterterrorism operation, one of the biggest that postwar Germany has seen, was a movement known as the Reichsbü ... Show More
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