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5 votes
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Germany makes measles vaccination compulsory
10 votes -
‘The day the wall came down’: How the Washington Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall thirty years ago
11 votes -
2-4 Grooves - Writing On The Wall (St. Elmo's Fire) (2008)
5 votes -
Denmark is giving permission for joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to be laid through its territory
3 votes -
The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value
9 votes -
ODD OKODDO - Auma (2019)
3 votes -
Beautiful tomboys of the 1930s
15 votes -
Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
6 votes -
Shooting near synagogue in Germany leaves at least two people dead, was streamed on Twitch
11 votes -
Santiano - Ihr Sollt Nicht Trauern (Y'all Shouldn't Mourn) (2017)
5 votes -
Germany’s North Channel Bank has been fined 110 million Danish crowns by a court in Denmark for its involvement in a dividend stripping scheme
5 votes -
Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
7 votes -
American connoisseurs have traditionally stayed away from German wine. A new generation of producers — and global warming — is changing that
6 votes -
How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
6 votes -
German fiscal frugality is the stuff of legends – but they have nothing on the abstemious Swedes
8 votes -
A very German idea of freedom: Nude ping-pong, nude sledding, nude just about anything
16 votes -
Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
9 votes -
We put a “sin tax” on cigarettes and alcohol. Why not meat?
15 votes -
A modest proposal to make domestic air travel obsolete
10 votes -
Greta Thunberg takes climate fight to Germany’s threatened Hambach Forest
5 votes -
'Youth and workers uniting behind this crisis': German labor union urges two million members to join global climate strike
5 votes -
German officials are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to argue they can try anyone for war crimes committed anywhere
7 votes -
How societies turn cruel featuring Sargon of Akkad
12 votes -
Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
13 votes -
Sopor Aeternus - Beautiful Thorn (1994)
5 votes -
Suspect in German politician's murder confesses
4 votes -
Would the German population more or less readily believe the Holocaust today as compared to 1945?
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government...
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government really committed such atrocities (Yes, I used Holocaust in the title, but I mean any genocide commited).
I was wondering how it might go down in our current culture with the emergence of Fake News and alternative "facts"; our post-fact culture. Would they more readily dismiss it as a photoshopped image? Would the impact be mitigated by the meme-ification of genocide?
(To a mod: The title should say « more or less »)
12 votes -
Russia wants concessions from Ukraine for continuing gas transit to Europe
9 votes -
Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1944/1945
6 votes -
Germany has a terrorism problem, foreign minister says
11 votes -
German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US?
8 votes -
Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat
23 votes -
Mogli - Another Life (2019)
4 votes -
When street food builds one community, and rankles another: Berlin’s Thaipark has long represented the best of what informal food markets have to offer. So why does the city think it’s a problem?
4 votes -
Germany: 1,000-year-old sarcophagus opened in Mainz
8 votes -
Arsenal player Mesut Özil celebrates his upcoming marriage by funding surgery for 1000 children in need
@mesutozil1088: 🙏🏼❤ #M1Ö https://t.co/hG72JpFhxF
8 votes -
European Drug Report 2019 directly contrasts US drug crisis, tells a story of relative calm
7 votes -
The invention that won World War II: Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults
6 votes -
One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach
9 votes -
To fight anti-semitism, German tabloid prints cutout Kippah
10 votes -
The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
8 votes -
Why Berlin's fifteen-year-old airport has never had a flight
10 votes -
The twilight of combustion comes for Germany's empire of engines
5 votes -
Enigma - Modern Crusaders (2000)
3 votes -
WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany
16 votes -
Rammstein - Deutschland (2019)
10 votes -
Why is my SCHUFA information contradictory?
Hi everyone. I'm in a more or less of a dilemma here. For the ones that don't know, SCHUFA is monopolistic credit agency in Germany. The good news is that my wife is pregnant and now we need to...
Hi everyone.
I'm in a more or less of a dilemma here.
For the ones that don't know, SCHUFA is monopolistic credit agency in Germany.The good news is that my wife is pregnant and now we need to move to a new apartment with one extra room. Luckly, a friend of us is also moving and we simply got in contact with his landlord. We sent the information about our salaries and answered a few general questions and all is well for him. But, the landlord also wants our SCHUFA score.
We weren't worried at all because we don't have any credit cards or any loans and we are very frugal with our money. We really only spend money for our basic necessities and doing our holidays. We don't have any debts; we pay everything in a timely manner.
Then, my SCHUFA-BonitätAuskunft arrived. I look at the first page, which is in this diploma-like format and it says: "We had only positive contractual information at our disposal." (Es liegen uns zum XX.XX.XXXX ausschliesslich positive vertragsinformationen vor.)
"Great!", I thought. Then, I turned to the next pages and I see "Explanatory informations for your certificate" and there it says that I'm a high risk person. Basically, my result is 335, right in the middle (scale from 100 to 600).
We have a high netto salary and it seems this doesn't count for anything. My guess is that they don't have almost no history about me (I'm only living in Germany for 4 years) and since we are not big spenders, basically we are high risk because they don't have data to infer the risk. A few months ago I opened a new bank account on Commerzbank and I guess my SCHUFA score was good enough to open a new bank account, so I don't understand.
How is it possible that in my certificate diploma-like paper says that they have only have positive information about me and then on the explanatory pages say that I'm a high risk person in basically every sector (Banken, Telekommunikation, etc)?
Now we also asked the SCHUFA score only for my wife and let's hope for the best.
3 votes -
YouTube face-off: Berlin police break up mass brawl
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Germany’s troubled relations with the Visegrad states show the limits to its power
6 votes