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Submit Release TERRE DES FEMMES launches the campaign "Abolish Paragraph 219a". Spots point out the lunacy of this misogynic paragraph April 21, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Health News Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code (StGB) prohibits "advertising for abortion". This paragraph is not confined to advertising but includes virtually any kind of information. In concrete terms, this means that doctors may only make public that they perform pregnancy terminations. But they may not provide infor...

Young activist fights to criminalize catcalling in Germany The murder of Sarah Everard in London has sparked fresh debate about harassment and assaults against women. In Germany, one young woman is campaigning for the introduction of a "catcall law." Public harassment is a fact of life for women everywhere "Hey, blondie!" "Babe, come over here!" — many men still think this sort of lewd comment, along with wolfwhistles and obscene gestures, is a compliment. For women its outright harassm...

A Warwick University professor wrongly claimed a female Holocaust survivor had had a sexual lesbian relationship with a Nazi concentration camp guard, a research misconduct investigation has found. A panel convened by the university concluded there was insufficient evidence to support historian Dr Anna Hájkovás claims that a Jewish prisoner and an SS guard had had a sexual relationship. The extraordinary claim was made by Dr Hájková after testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal doc...

Posted by TheConversation | Jan 26, 2021 | Syndicated | By Sylvia Taschka, Senior Lecturer of History, Wayne State University Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Even in the eyes of German history scholars like myself, who had earlier warned of the troubling nature of such analogies, Trump’s strategy to remain in power has undeniably proved that he has fascist ...

The U.S. finds itself in a different place and time than postwar Germany, but the challenge is similar.

January 14, 2021 In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic taught the world another lesson about the unpredictability of life. Each country responded to the challenges posed by the pandemic in its own way. The German Government in its familiar technocratic and sober approach quickly unlocked massive financial resources to mitigate any immediate economic damage. It supported a further relaxation of the purse strings at EU level and put legislative acts in place that helped manage the uncertainty in the mos...

How Can America Heal From the Trump Era? Lessons From Germanys Transformation After Nazi Rule Defenders of American democracy would do well to study carefully the painful but ultimately successful approach of the Federal Republic of Germany to move beyond fascism. A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump smashes a window as they storm the Capitol building in Washington DC, January 6, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Stephanie Keith World13/Jan/2021 Even in the eyes of German history scholars like myself,...

Even in the eyes of German history scholars like myself, who had earlier warned of the troubling nature of such analogies, Trump’s strategy to remain in power has undeniably proved that he has fascist traits. True to the fascist playbook, which includes hypernationalism, the glorification of violence and a fealty to anti-democratic leaders that is cultlike, Trump launched a conspiracy theory that the recent election was rigged and incited violence against democratically elected representative...