Imagine you're a 24-year-old man living in Germany — maybe you were born there, maybe you moved with your family years ago and hold German citizenship alongside another passport. You've just been offered a job in Canada, or a place on a master's program in the US. You start planning your move. Then you read a headline saying you legally need the German military's permission to leave for more than three months. Is that true? Should you be worried? Depends which article you rea