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‘I’m a person who does not deserve to be loved. I was, and still am, the product of a child molester’; these are the words of a man who a paedophile brought up. In Germany, the authorities allowed a criminal to take the child. Now he’s traumatised for life. Marco and Sven were not even 10 when they got into the house of a paedophile. The men agreed to be interviewed by an RT Documentary film crew on the condition that their faces are covered and their voices altered. For more than 30 years, homeless children lived with paedophiles in Germany. It was an experiment conducted by psychologist Helmut Kentler with the approval of the Berlin authorities. Watch our video and the film The German Paedo-Files about this. #Germany#humanstories Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Disability Rights Day is marked in Russia and some European countries on May 5. Hulya from Germany is featured in our We Are Different documentary. She suffers from a rare disease which means her legs can’t support her when she walks. When she was 18, Hulya was faced with a heartbreaking decision: whether to have her legs amputated. She doesn’t regret her decision at all! Why? Watch the clip to find the answer. #video#Germany Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Germany Anneliese Michel was a German girl who believed demons possessed her. The girl underwent 67 rites of exorcism, during which she ate dead insects and animals, barked like a dog and licked her urine off the floor. Anneliese died on June 1, 1976, of malnutrition and dehydration. Her parents and the priests who performed the exorcism rituals were severely criticised and eventually had to stand trial. Medical specialists said Anneliese’s mental disorder resulted partially from the exceptionally severe religious upbringing: she had been persuaded to suffer for the sins and obediently fulfilled this mission. According to testimonies, she could have survived if she had been force-fed at least a week before her death. However, there were things in this case that had no rational explanation, and what happened will forever remain a mystery. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Europe’s football hooligans #video#Germany Two walls of tough men stand on opposite sides, ready to clash in a brutal melee. The fight takes just a few minutes and members of the defeated side lie on the ground and cling to their wounds and bruises. It’s not a medieval fight, but a stand-off between rival gangs of football hooligans. For them ’it feels like being in a movie’. Modern football hooliganism originated in England in the 1960s, when working-class football fans organised into gangs, known as ‘firms’. Now they are all over Europe, from Sweden to Greece. Hooligans are seen as the most fanatical followers of their football clubs, but the love of the fight often seems to outweigh the love of the game. Many hooligans admit they like the sense of brotherhood and the buzz. They train, arrange fights with rival gangs and vent all their rage and violence on rivals. If you’d like to know more about the culture of football violence, check out our hit documentary. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary