for questions about claims based in Germany, or limited in Germany.
Questions tagged [germany]
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Are brothels to have sex with animals increasing fast in Germany?
I've found some sources that explain this is a phenomenon that this is likely happening in Germany right now, although the sources for that are a bit old.
Dailymail claims on 1 July 2013:
Bestiality brothels are spreading through Germany faster…
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Was the Jewish flag one of only two flags allowed in Nazi Germany?
Former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone was quoted in this tweet as saying:
in 1935 Hitler passed a law that said that only two flags could be flown in Germany: the swastika and the Zionist banner. This is not something I'm 'claiming;' this is not…
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Did a German judge acquit a man of rape because he is Turkish?
Tyler O'Neil, assistant editor at PJ Media, titles in an article from 2017-04-21:
German Judge Says Turkish Man's Forced Violent Sex Is 'Culturally' Not Rape
The article goes into lot of details, the girl could not run properly for two weeks.
I…
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Does South Korea have more institutions teaching German literature than Germany?
In the Financial Times article on educational achievement, the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore is noted as claiming in a May 2015 speech that
South Korea has more institutions teaching German literature than Germany does: “How many…
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Were German police instructed to give information about crimes committed by refugees to the press only upon request?
From German authorities accused of migrant attack cover up:
Elsewhere, a high-ranking Frankfurt police officer told Bild, strict
instructions had been given not to volunteer information about crimes
committed by refugees.
Details should only be…
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Did BMW recall their GPS system due to its female voice?
In 2010, Clifford Nass was quoted as making a claim about BMW's GPS systems:
In his book titled “The Man Who Lied to His Laptop” published in 2010, Clifford Nass, a communications professor at Stanford University, writes that BMW recalled GPS…
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Is it illegal in Germany to waste food at a restaurant?
This post on LinkedIn Pulse purports a tweet from Mr. Ratan Tata - a well-known Indian of diverse interests.
The tweet references an undated incident at an unnamed restaurant in Hamburg, Germany. The tweet narrates a 50 Euro Fine by "man in uniform…
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Has Cologne's city council declared the town center a "no-go" zone for women?
According to Daily Mail, the Cologne town center has been declared a No-Go Zone for women.
Cologne town centre has been called a 'no-go area' by its own city council.
Are there any statements from the city council that substantiates this…
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Did the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) post this advert in Turkish?
On 14 September 2017, Hamed Abdel-Samad and Erika Steinbach posted on Facebook, referencing the following image, which is purportedly a CDU advert:
The three main points roughly translate (according to Google Translate) as:
For better jobs and…
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Did Adolf Hitler offer to make Dhyan Chand a Field Marshal in the German army?
There is a popular story about Indian field hockey legend, Dhyan Chand, and his encounter with Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Here is one randomly selected version of it:
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler who left midway as he could not bear to…
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Did the US confiscate 200,000 masks from a delivery to Berlin?
According to several news reports (SPIEGEL, RBB24, BBC) the Berlin police bought face masks of which 200,000 were confiscated in Bangkok.
BBC, 4 April, 2020:
The US has been accused of redirecting 200,000 Germany-bound masks for its own use, in a…
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Did Germany and France offer help to Italy in the Covid-19 crisis?
An opinion piece published yesterday by DW says:
The first thing that fell by the wayside, as always in times of crisis, was solidarity. It was Italy, the first country hit by the Corona crisis — and hit hardest of all — that had the bitter of…
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Did Trump hand Angela Merkel an invoice for $300bn, representing costs owed to NATO?
Various news outlets described a stunt by US President Donald Trump, handing a physical bill to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for $300 billion. This Fox News article refers to original reporting here in the Times of London. It was also in the The…
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Did Jews claim to be asians to Imperial Japan?
I came across the following anecdote from the Judaism Stack Exchange: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/5940/jewish-community-in-china-around-ww2/5942
During the questions portion of the lecture someone asked Professor
Xin why the…
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Did the grandson of John Rabe received 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 COVID pandemic in April 2020 because there is a…
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