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Originally Posted by August
When did you stop corporal punishment? There's bound to be a delay in seeing effects one way or the other.
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It was abolished in 1949 in the German democratic republic and discouraged in west Germany at about the same time. West Germany abolished it completely in 1973 but at that time it had already pretty much ceased to be used anyway from what I hear. My parents who went to school during the 50ies and 60ies were not hit in school in Lower Saxony.