Reichsbürger movement

Reichsbürgerbewegung ("Reich Citizens' Movement") or Reichsbürger ("Reich Citizen[s]", the German word is the same in singular and in plural) is a label for several anticonstitutional revisionist groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who reject the legitimacy of the modern German state, the Federal Republic of Germany, in favour of the German Reich.

One typical claim is that the German Reich continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders, and that it is now governed by one of the Reichsbürger groups.

Several incidents with violent members of the movement and illegal weapons depots earned the movement the attention of the media and the German authorities.:20–21 The latter estimated that some 21,000 people belong to the movement in Germany as of July 2021.

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