Germany coup plot: The extremists who tried to topple the state
The BBC's Europe editor digs into the extremists who plotted to topple the German government.
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The BBC's Europe editor digs into the extremists who plotted to topple the German government.
At a quiet hunting lodge deep in rural Germany, a group of dissidents plotted a new Reich, led by a mysterious disgraced "Prince" known as Heinrich XIII.
Share on Twitter Germany is moving to rid itself of a cluster of laws introduced by the Nazis, still lingering on its books 75 years after World War II. There are 29 German legal or regulatory texts that still use wording introduced when Hitler was in power, according to Felix Klein, the government's point man for fighting anti-Semitism. Some of them have "a very clear anti-Semitic background", Mr Klein told AFP. Now, with the support of several parties in the Bundestag lower house of parliament as well as Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, Mr Klein wants to wipe the slate clean - ...