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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷11/01/2016 2:53:21 am PDT

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Germany has its own sovereign citizen movement problem, exposed after a police officer was shot.

Who are the Reichsbürger? They do not actually exist as an organization as such. They are instead a very fragmented and somewhat contradictory scene without a leader or hierarchy. The only things that unite the movement are the belief that the German Empire still exists and the refusal to acknowledge the Federal Republic of Germany as a state. In the opinion of the Reichsbürger, the German Reich still exists, as do the country’s 1937 borders. They consider the Federal Republic of Germany to instead be a limited liability company.

Some of the Reichsbürger have their own “substitute documents” like the Reichs-ID, which they carry with them as though it were an official identity card. They have even founded states like the “Exile Government of the German Reich” or the “Free State of Prussia”. The “imperial citizens” deny the legitimacy of state institutions such as courts or police and do not accept state decisions. They often do not pay taxes or fines and frequently annoy authorities with their formal complaints or long, written statements.