Grimm's stories 'full of sex and violence'

It is 200 years since Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published.
In Britain, they are often softened and prettified but the German originals are as brutal as they were intended to be.
The BBC's Berlin correspondent Steve Evans reports.

06 August 2013

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Today—06/08/2013

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