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Did Nazi Germany use the German census in its targeting of minorities
From 2016 is census year! But you can stick your census in your ear, you won't get any data here
Did you know
Hitler used the German census to target minorities
Doing a brief search came across censuses created by Nazi Germany after the country…
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Did a German party ask a Holocaust denier to assess the antisemitism of a party member?
The Bild reported this:
Die AfD hat den Holocaust-Leugner Gerard Menuhin (67) gebeten, ein Gutachten über die Bücher des baden-württembergischen AfD-Landtagsabgeordneten Wolfgang Gedeon zu erstellen, ob dessen Bücher antisemitisch sind.
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Does preservative and pesticides in food prevent corpses from rotting?
In this 2003 article it is said that in Germany, the time before a coffins collapse and crumble into the soil is expanding
Previously that process would take from eight to 10 years - but now in around one third of graves in Germany, it is taking…
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Was Germany's reunification an annexation?
Russian media has reported that members of the Russian legislature have claimed that Germany's reunification was in fact an "annexation" of East Germany by the West and thus they have no right to criticize Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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Did the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) accuse China of pressuring the WHO to suppress news about the Wuhan outbreak?
As reported on Arirang TV and in (more clear detail) on Taiwan News
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak,…
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Did Germany deny asylum because victim of blood feud could settle feud by giving two daughters to his enemies for marriage?
As far as I can tell Volker Gerloff is a real lawyer (website, facebook looks good at first glance, website links to facebook page). He writes on facebook:
Das BAMF schafft es immer wieder, zu verblüffen. Mein Mandant ist
Afghane und es ist…
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Did Turkish people commit 70–80% of the rapes in Cologne around the year 1996?
In an interview by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 2016-12-29, the journalist/feminist Alice Schwarzer said (in German):
Dass vor 20 Jahren 70 bis 80 Prozent aller Vergewaltigungen in Köln von Türken begangen wurden, war der Polizei wohlbekannt.
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Were the Cologne attacks under-reported by the German media?
According to The Guardian, Tensions rise in Germany over handling of mass sexual assaults in Cologne:
The events have since come to dominate German media, but following a barrage of complaints on social media that the New Year’s Eve events were…
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Did Nazis use alternatives to Zyklon B?
Many sources online seem to be claiming that, when in lack of Zyklon B, Nazis used their truck exhaust pipes directly as a source of gas. Is that true?
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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 was reporting significantly different numbers from…
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Were 830,000 protective masks destined for Italy first blocked in Germany and then "disappeared"?
The website of a manufacturer of (among other things) surgical masks contains a blogpost dated March 13, 2020 (written in Italian). In it, it is claimed that a shipment of 830,000 surgical masks destined for CoVid-19-stricken Italy was on its way…
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Are Germans buying anti-rape "safety shorts"?
From The Express: Safe shorts to STOP women joggers suffering SEX ATTACKS in Germany are sold out, January 1 2017:
AN ENTREPRENEUR from Germany has created trousers with the aim of protecting women from possible sex attacks while they are out…
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Did all of Germany's Muslim MPs vote in favor of same-sex marriage?
I saw the following claim on The Independent's web-site:
All six of Germany's Muslim members of parliament voted in favour of same-sex marriage as Angela Merkel faced criticism for opposing the bill and announcing: "Marriage is between a man and a…
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Were only 17 of 500 sexual assaults on Cologne's Silvesternacht reported in crime statistics?
Quoting the article on Express.de:
There were more than 500 sexual assaults in Cologne's Silvesternacht. [...] In police criminal statistics for Cologne, however, the sex mob did not lead to a rapid increase in the number of cases in January. Just…
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Is Alnatura preventing unionizing of its workers?
Alnatura is a German producer of organic food. The German newspaper taz has repeatedly claimed that Alnatura is trying to prevent the forming of a Betriebsrat (Works council).
In October of 2015, Alnatura is said to have hijacked an election by…
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