How A Foiled Coup In Germany Came To Be

This week, authorities in Germany arrested more than two dozen suspected far-right extremists over a plot to violently overthrow the government.

The plotters were reportedly inspired by QAnon conspiracy theories.

NPR's Rob Schmitz walks us through the latest.

And German historian and author Katja Hoyer explains why members of Germany's far-right can seem invisible.

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