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But this series shouldn't be about "normal citizens".
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We take care of the radicals, the extremists who have been under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for some time.
About the Nazis, who used the demonstrations to spread their right-wing ideologies.
About the QAnon supporters who propagate crude conspiracy theories and saw their savior in Donald Trump.
And the Vladimir Putin friends, who gathered in front of the Russian embassy at the larger Berlin demos and chanted the name of the Kremlin ruler.
What unites them is hatred of the state, of the political structures.
The pandemic was often just the reason to take to the streets and vent anger.
And so an ominous alliance came about: suddenly, critics of the measures marched side by side with National Socialists, conspiracy ideologues and lunatics.
Politicians got "home visits" and buckets of hate mail.
In the first episode "Im Verhör": The Pandemic of Anger, SPIEGEL TV reporters Marie Groß and Henrik Neumann talk to right-wing extremism expert Matthias Quent about this development.
How did the so-called "lateral thinker scene" become so big, what is its founder Michael Ballweg doing today and why are the "Free Saxony" so successful with their walks?
The host of the format is SPIEGEL TV editor Christina Pohl.