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An animal lives in almost every second household and in 2020 around a million new ones were added. For hundreds of years, animals were kept almost exclusively for consumption.

Successful family businesses, smart, traditional managers with a sense for business - undesirable in socialism. The wave of expropriations in 1972 hit the middle class in the GDR in particular.

Terrorists, fanatics, uninhibited individuals take up arms and murder - in a school, at a Christmas market or simply on the street. Is our world getting more and more dangerous? How much does this violence threaten our society?

Central Germany at the end of World War II. The Red Army is advancing from the east and the U.S. Army from the west. Thousands of civilians, but above all members of the Wehrmacht, flee to the west.

Will tanks decide the war in Ukraine? A military expert analyzes the tanks roaming Ukraine's battlefields and explains why the Russians are repairing their tanks with chips made from old kitchen utensils.

The 1980s in the GDR were characterized by a new, raw style of music. However, the hard rock had some peculiarities that brought about its steep rise as well as its rapid erosion.

How clueless was Leni Riefenstahl, the dazzling Nazi filmmaker, really - did she know nothing about the atrocities of her clients, as she claimed after the war - or did she consciously suppress them?

The case still causes horror today: for two years, a serial killer was up to mischief in the north-east of Brandenburg in the early 1970s. He killed three little boys.

The old towns of Erfurt and Leipzig, Pirna or Quedlinburg are magnets for visitors today. Without the end of the GDR it would certainly be different. Today it is usually because of the high rents when people have to leave their homes.