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A patchwork of criminal laws governs sex with animals (bestiality/zoophilia): many countries have enacted explicit bans, others rely on animal-cruelty or pornography statutes, and a few jurisdictions ...
Joseph Goebbels did not receive a Nobel Prize; he was never a laureate. What is historically documented is that Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, gave his physi...
Donald Trump has not publicly identified himself as Jewish and available reporting describes him as raised Presbyterian and of German/Scottish family background; multiple fact-check and history pieces...
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s policies and Adolf Hitler’s regime appear frequently in opinion pieces and commentary, but reporting and historians cited in the available sources emphasize both par...
The idea captured by “one of ours, all of yours” — that the injury or loss of a single in-group member justifies collective reprisals or total solidarity — has deep premodern roots and several 20th‑ce...
Comparisons between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Nazi Germany’s Gestapo are frequent, emotionally charged, and serve as both warning and rhetorical weapon; historians and comment...
German broadcaster ARD’s STRG_F unit and multiple outlets report investigators infiltrated Telegram groups where members exchanged tips about drugging and sexually assaulting women and shared footage;...
The core claim under review is that organized . Available analyses of the provided sources do not establish firm, direct evidence for a formal system of child brothels operating in Germany in the 1920...
Donald Trump’s closest ancestors immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (often spelled Friedrich Trump) arrived from Germany in 1...
Germany has publicly discussed and begun planning a stepped-up NATO role in Greenland and the Arctic, and German naval activity tied to NATO patrols in northern waters has been reported — but definiti...
There is no single, authoritative list of countries that “have no age‑verification or record‑keeping requirements” for adult producers; reporting and industry guides identify a shifting patchwork wher...
Laws on sex with animals vary widely: several European countries criminalize bestiality with prison terms of up to two years or more, while a handful of states/countries historically permitted it (sou...
Contemporary reporting shows a string of foiled and prosecuted plots aimed at Christmas markets and gatherings in Europe in 2025, with several arrests tied to Islamist-motivated plots or individuals d...
Reporting is mixed: several outlets initially listed Canada among NATO partners sending personnel to Denmark’s Greenland exercise, Operation Arctic Endurance, but official Canadian defence spokespeopl...
pays the most for in absolute terms and is one of the largest direct contributors to NATO’s common budgets — roughly 15–16% of the alliance’s annual common budget — but that metric understates how ove...
Published compilations put average erect penis length for European countries largely in the 13–15 cm (≈5.1–5.9 in) band, with some Western and Southern European nations reported near or above 15 cm wh...
No reliable global list in the provided sources names any country as having absolutely “zero restrictions” on pornographic material; instead reporting shows a wide spectrum from outright bans (China, ...
Between 2020 and 2025 the dominant trend in available reporting is not widespread removal of age limits but the introduction, enforcement, or legal contestation of age‑verification requirements for on...
Bolshevik and later Soviet policy systematically suppressed and persecuted Christianity across denominations: sources report executions of clergy (for example “28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,2...
Only one NATO member — Germany — has publicly announced a specific, finalized small contingent and a narrow timeline for deployment to Greenland: a 13-strong Bundeswehr reconnaissance team to Nuuk, ar...