Timo will never forget the first time his wife attacked him, just a month after they were married. “My wife slapped me and came at me with her fists.” She would go on to beat and humiliate him in their home for almost 20 years, he says. “Domestic violence against men is a taboo subject for many people,” adds Timo, who refused to share his real name or allow himself to be photographed for this story. “That leads to prejudice and people not believing me.” In Germany, where he lives, there were 240,547 cases of domestic violence nationwide in 2022, says the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). I…