BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have arrested eight suspected members of a right-wing militant group driven by racist ideology and conspiracy theories who had been training in warfare for the downfall of the modern German state, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

After that date, the group allegedly planned to seize control over areas of eastern Germany by force and establish a far-right regime. More than 450 officers carried out searches and arrests across Germany,

Germany has arrested eight alleged members of a rightwing terror organisation, accusing them of planning to seize parts of the country’s east and conduct ethnic cleansing against “unwanted” groups. Federal prosecutors said the men had “racist,

Prosecutors said the group plotted to seize power in Saxony and potentially other eastern German states “to establish governmental and societal structures inspired by National Socialism.”