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Completely against this, so they do not have support within the main stream of the political system. and it s a fairly small movement, i think 20,000. but to what extent did they look at something like january 6th and get inspired, do we know? that certainly was an inspiration for them. it has to be said, they have 20,000 supporters. around 10% of the german domestic intelligence agency, around 2,000 people are supposed to be potentially violent. what s important about this movement is in contrast to the rest of german society, they are heavily armed. they are people who are hoarding arms in the basements of their houses, waiting for day x, just like the qanon movement in america, and they ve all been watching the storming of the capitol. that s what they were trying to re-create, trying to do the same thing. now, i don t believe for one second they would have succeeded. but they would have caused a lot of damage, both to people, but ....
Mainstream of the political system. and it s a fairly small movement, i think 20,000. but to what extent did they look at something like january 6th and get inspired, do we know? that certainly was an inspiration for them. it has to be said, they have 20,000 supporters. around 10% of the german domestic intelligence agency, around 2,000 people are supposed to be potentially violent. what s important about this movement is that in contrast to the rest of german society, they are heavily armed. they are people who are hoarding arms in the basements of their houses, waiting for day x, just like the qanon movement in america, and they ve all been watching the storming of the capitol. that s what they were trying to re-create, they were essentially trying to do the same thing. now, i don t believe for one second they would have succeeded, but they would have caused a lot of damage, both to ....
Illegally. that s also where a lot of those former german soldiers came in as well. and that s where the german authorities said they knew they had to act. they say they re continuing to be tough on such groups in the future as well and are treating this a terrorism. outfront now, jason van tatenhove, the former spokesperson for the far-right oath keepers group. and he testified by the january 6th committee and warned of extremist groups using political violence. and, jason, here we are tonight. you ve seen what happened today. you hear fred reporting about extremists with links to qanon plotting to overthrow the government of the largest country in europe. did you immediately think january 6th? i did. and i thought that previously. you know, they ve got this notion of this day x, which is covered extensively by a new york times reporter catherine benhold who did the day x podcast series where she really, ....
Really breaks this down. but you can think of day x as being the equivalent in america of being the storm that qanon talks about. and four months before january 6th happened, they had almost an identical event happen at the parliamentary building in berlin. so, this is a direct reflection. we re seeing this happen all over. and they re using really the same blueprint. it is pretty amazing to see it. so when you see former president trump posting mar-a-lago, prominent qanon conspiricists posing for photos, this is after of course he just had dinner with a person who denies the holocaust, who is a known anti-semite. what signal does this send to members of the oath keepers, just for instance, to other far-right groups? again, it s much like we heard during the presidential debates with the stand back and stand by. it s a dog whistle. it s acknowledging that he sees ....
Which was split up into different departments, just like the cabinet of a country. several individuals were already earmarked to take over different ministries, among them for the justice minister and a former member of the german bundestag. almost half of the arrests took place in southern states of baden wurttemberg and bavaria. the plotters were perking beyond german borders. one person was arrested in austria under 64 year old has been arrested in italy. the man is a former german army officer allegedly connected to the far right group. katrin bennhold is berlin bureau chief for the new york times and host of day x, a podcast looking at far right plots to bring down the german government. this is her analysis. it s very easy to dismiss them as crazies as we all did katrin bennhold is berlin bureau chief ....