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TIL of The Citizens of the Reich, a group of some 17,000 Germans, who believe that the 1937 borders of the German Empire still exist, who do not accept the legality of the Federal Republic of Germany, who refuse to pay taxes, and who are gathering weapons to bring down the federal government.

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