If you've watched German news over the past year (especially the past week)....there is a fair amount of discussion over this 'group'.
Best description? This is a small group (probably in the 10,000 member range) that believe that the Reich Weimar Constitution (dating back to 1919) was never deleted/cancelled in the 1930s (under the Nazis) or by the 1949 new Constitution/Basic Law.
At some point about a year ago....this group had meetings and decided that the time was right for a 'coup'.
In their mind, they would take some weapons....overthrow the police, the local and state governments....along with the federal government in Berlin, and that the German military would just stand there and do 'nothing'.
At this point, I pause in the story.
I really can't think of any Germans who might find some belief in that a coup would happen and the public would accept these Reich guys as a better deal.
My general impression is that these guys lived in a vacuum....only chatted with like-minded folks....never discussing reality.
What the government has to do now? Basically walk through a legal court hearing with people who probably don't respect German law....as it exists today, and continuing to argue about Weimar law still in effect.
A comedy show? I'm of the mind that someone will record much of the dialog and some TV movie script/series....will be eventually produced.
Taking any part of this serious? Well...you can go back to the Weimar years and wonder why the Nazis didn't formerly dissolve it (in some manner) or why the folks who arrived in the 1945 to 1949 era....didn't formerly dissolve things. I'm guessing everyone assumed that the Basic Law package that came out of 1949.....was 'enough' to do the job.
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