> which is illegal for Germans

It is not. Consuming it is absolutely legal. It is even in our constitution that the state does not censor.

What is illegal is "making" (for lack or a better word) hate speech and inciting violence.

Example: You can buy Hitler's "Mein Kampf" since 2015. Before that it wasn't possible just because Bavaria held the rights after Hitler's death and refused to publish uncommented full versions. Since books enter the free domain 70 years after the author's death, Mein Kampf entered it in 2015.

Thank you for clearing it up for me - Germans can consume but not produce national socialist speech and content.

The servers are definitely not in Russia because the team had to leave Russia due to the pressure from the government which outlawed it a few years ago. IIRC it runs on AWS because I remember when Russian government started banning Telegram IP ranges a lot of AWS-based sites became unavailable in Russia as collateral damage

Thanks for correcting me - much appreciated