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Legislature of Germany; parliament
Several countries have recently changed or debated laws criminalizing sexual acts with animals (commonly called bestiality or zoophilia). Denmark banned bestiality in 2015 amid concerns it made the co...
Germany’s age of sexual consent is 14 under current law; that rule traces back to the Imperial Criminal Code of 1872 and was retained through post‑war divisions and reunification, with modern statutor...
Several jurisdictions have changed pornography-related laws in 2024–2025, but most changes concern age-verification, AI and non‑consensual-image rules or treaty negotiations about narrow sexting/ficti...
Germany’s age rules for producing, distributing and accessing pornography are governed mainly by the Criminal Code (StGB) — especially §§ 184, 184a–c for pornographic offences involving adults, violen...
Germany criminalizes the production, distribution and possession of child pornography under Section 184b of the Criminal Code, but recent legislation and court rulings have narrowed mandatory minimum ...
German archival collections commonly record political party membership in party archives and state/federal files, especially from the late 19th century into the Weimar and Nazi eras; major holdings in...
Germany’s domestic intelligence service (BfV) has classified the AfD as a right‑wing extremist endeavor, a designation that permits increased surveillance and cites an “ethnic‑based understanding of t...
Germany changed the criminal-law treatment of child sexual-abuse images in 2024: the Bundestag passed a bill in May 2024 that reduced minimum sentences for possession, acquisition and distribution (po...
The claim that “the parallels between Germany 1929–45 and current politics are striking and should be explored” is partially supported by scholars who identify patterns of democratic erosion and autho...