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German ju-jutsu

German martial art

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

German Ju-Jutsu is a martial art related to traditional Japanese Jujutsu, developed in West Germany in the 1960s using techniques from Jujutsu, Judo, Karate and various other traditional and modern martial arts. The system is taught to the German police forces.

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The public source identifies “German ju-jutsu” as german martial art. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around German, ju-jutsu and martial.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with German, ju-jutsu and martial providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “German ju-jutsu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.