In a speech peppered with anti-Semitic conspiracies, Prince Reuss said Germany had been a vassal state government since World War II and needed to regain its sovereignty through a peace deal.
Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss is one of the last descendants of a dynasty that once ruled over swaths of eastern Germany. He is suspected of hoping to become the country’s new leader in a violent coup to overthrow the democratic order.planning the alleged putschMasked police officers lead Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss to a police vehicle during a raid against so-called “Reich citizens” in Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday.
In the speech, peppered with anti-Semitic conspiracies, he said Germany had been a vassal state government since World War II and needed to regain its sovereignty through a peace deal. Heinrich was arrested at his house in Frankfurt, led out by balaclava-clad policemen in handcuffs, sporting mustard-coloured corduroy trousers and a tartan-patterned jacket, with long grey hair.Police also searched his hunting lodge in Thuringia where he was suspected of stockpiling weapons, according to thenewspaper. The state in eastern Germany is known for the long-standing strength of the far right there.
It also declined to comment on how, if at all, Heinrich was involved in the far-right “Reichsbuerger” movement, which denies the existence of the modern German state, and which prosecutors say inspired the group of suspects arrested.The Reuss dynasty named all its male children Heinrich or Henry after the end of the 12th century in honour of Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, who bequeathed them the estates of Weida and Gera, now towns in Thuringia.
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