eli5 How does a coup d’etat actually work?

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Basically title, because I saw an article from BBC that a few people tried to seize power in Germany. Do they get the power just by occupying the building? Do other states recognise this? What happens to the constitution and the law? Is is a lawless state while they create a new constitution?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Time to whip out Shriner’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”

You don’t even need to remove people in power in the current government. You just need to make them not matter.

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