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Members of the Bundeswehr’s KSK - the equivalent to the SAS - have allegedly plotted to kill Green Party leader Claudia Roth, foreign minister Heiko Mass and former president Joachim Gauck. The group have been stockpiling weapons for when the right time arrives, according to reports. German authorities have reportedly been searching training camps on the Austrian and Swiss borders for weapons, ammunition, petrol and food.

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Death squads allegedly planned to lure them and other left-wing politicians to a remote location and assassinate them.

Reports say they planned to kill leaders of asylum seeker groups who have been blamed for social unrest, terrorism and rapes in Germany.

Accusations made against one soldier - known by his code name “Hannibal” - revealed how little Germany knows about its most elite troops.

According to reports by Berlin magazine, Focus, elite soldiers who meet Hannibal are enlisted into his “shadow army” of extremists.