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Are Germans allowed to laugh?

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Jörg Luyken
Dec 23, 2022
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Dear Reader,

Almost as interesting as the arrests of some 50 people involved in an alleged monarchist coup plot early this month was the debate that followed over how seriously we should take it.

One of the strange things about the raids was that almost every major newspaper seemed to have been informed beforehand. That meant that TV crews were waiting ou…

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