Questions tagged [germany]
for questions about claims based in Germany, or limited in Germany.
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Did the German justice system convict a woman for insulting a person who gang raped a minor?
New York Post writes
A German woman was handed down a harsher sentence than a convicted rapist after she called him a “disgraceful rapist pig.”
Maja R, 20, was jailed for a weekend after she was ...
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Have 37% of those arrested for antisemitism in Germany been Jews?
I saw the image below circulating on Facebook.
There's also a Tweet with 48K likes repeating the claim.
germany's jews represent 1% of its population, but 37% of those arrested for antisemitic ...
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Did a US soldier climb onto an unmanned T-54 during the Checkpoint Charlie standoff of Oct 1961?
A US soldier present at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961 says he climbed into or at least onto an unmanned T-54 and looked inside the unmanned driver compartment to identify it if was a Soviet or East ...
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Were postal pneumatic tubes in Berlin (Rohrpost) cleared with wine?
According to “A Series of Tubes” by Molly Wright Steenson:
If a pneumatic canister got stuck and couldn’t be cleared by reversing airflow, there was another solution: firing a pistol into the tube ...
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Is saying "du" to a police officer illegal in Germany?
A very popular YouTuber called Bharat in Germany recently made a video where it says that it is illegal in Germany to address a police officer informally, that is, using the informal pronoun du* ...
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Did the grandson of John Rabe receive medicine from China during the start of COVID?
There is a story widely reported by prominent newspapers and government outlets in China that Thomas Rabe, the grandson of John Rabe, asked China for medicine and medical supplies at the start of the ...
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Did the 1937 single issue magazine "Rising Tide" include the "Rules for Revolution"?
The New York Times 10 July 1970 article Communist ‘Rules’ For Revolt Viewed As Durable Fraud inaccurately states:
The earliest publication of the “rules” turned up in search was in The New World ...
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Did a yacht owned by a Polish company with Ukrainian owners travel from Rostock to Christiansø on September 6-7, 2022?
A number of mainstream German newspapers claimed on March 7 that a likely Ukrainian commando travelling on false passports boarded a yacht registered to a Polish company (but ultimately owned by ...
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Did a million Germans die after World War 2 in "Eisenhower's death camps"?
According to The Millennium Report
Call it callousness, call it reprisal, call it a policy of hostile neglect: a million Germans taken prisoner by Eisenhower’s armies died in captivity after the ...
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Did East Germany (or other countries) require a physical exam in order to obtain a marriage license?
In Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the titular character
Is there a historical basis for mandatory premarital exams?
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Did Konrad Adenauer claim that Europe and Asia encounter at the Elbe?
According to James Hawes1,
Konrad Adenauer, its first postwar chancellor and founding father, made Westbindung (“binding to the West”) the heart of West German politics. Adenauer came from the deeply ...
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Did British journalists keep silent about Russian defections to Germany in WW2?
In George Orwell's essay, The Prevention of Literature, he claims this:
When Germany collapsed, it was found that very large numbers of Soviet Russians — mostly, no doubt, from non-political motives —...
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Were most active policemen in the Weimer Republic not Nazis?
From the Holocaust Encylopedia: The police in the Weimar Republic
In the years of the Weimar Republic, most active policemen were not Nazis, meaning they were not members of the Nazi Party or of Nazi ...
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What is the real amount of new Covid-19 cases per week per 100,000 people in Germany?
As I live in Germany, I am trying to follow the local Covid-19 situation with attention.
The other day I saw a source (Financial Times) I was not following being shared on twitter. I noticed that it ...
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Is this colour footage of Breslau in 1939 authentic?
This 7 minutes footage on youtube purports to be from 1939 in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland). In it we can see
The banks of the Oder/Odra
A random boy cycling in the streets
Some military ...
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