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News, analysis and practical guidance on safety, preparedness and responding to dangerous situations.
Preparedness & Prevention
A detailed feature on Amok & Terror: Eigensicherung und Überleben – the 3-plus-1 system, rooms and doors, roles, training, special settings, action cards and translated extracts.
Responding to Dangerous Situations
A source-based distinction between threats and attacks, with research on reaction time and group behaviour and a clear treatment of environment, escape, last-resort defence and first aid.
Responding to Dangerous Situations
Stab and cut injuries may appear minor while still being life-threatening. This specialist article explains effective first aid, from direct pressure and wound packing to tourniquets, shock management and emergency calls.
Analysis & Context
When the German PKS records a knife attack, which borderline cases remain and why cases, victims and suspects must be read separately.
Analysis & Context
What Germany’s 29,243 recorded knife attacks in 2025 show when compared with 2024—and where methods, data gaps and policy limit the conclusions.
