The bureaucracy problem is compounded by not wanting to link databases between government organizations and a general resistance to anything digital that involves personal data (except Facebook et al. for some reason), which reduces efficiency a lot.
However, this is understandable given German history.
>modern German bureaucracy has been built exactly by former Nazis and Stasi agents.
How frustrating for London and Washington to fight and win a war against the Nazis, then occupy (the Western half of) Germany for 7 years, imposing a new government on the country -- all to no effect.
De-Nazification effectively stopped once the US realised that Germany would be more useful as an ally against the Soviet Union, so in the first years of the new state you had former Nazis in important positions. It really was the next generation of Germans who, in the 60s, demanded more thorough denazification.
> So tired of this apologetics, modern German bureaucracy has been built exactly by former Nazis and Stasi agents.
The modern US was founded by slave owners, Spain was a dictatorship for longer than most of Germany, Poland was sliding into illiberal democracy until very recently, most of Latin America seems one recession away from a coup or revolution, ... there is a lot of continuity between liberal democracies and authoritarian governments. The roots of German bureaucracy also go much further back than the Nazi era (at least to Prussia).
I'm not really sure what using loaded language like this accomplished, though.
Post WWII era was the most impactful for the current state of affairs. The recent situation in Poland was nowhere close in terms of graveness in comparison with the other examples, no slavery of genocide was even marginally likely, not even hyperinflation.
Sorry, I didn't mean it as an apology, it's more that I understand the historical context (at least that's what several Germans have told me).
I strongly prefer the system where I live, where I can pretty much arrange everything government-related from behind a keyboard and a universal authenticator (DigiD).
Yes after eliminating or mauling those they don't consider worthy living ;) lol hahaha.
Seriously though if you're allowed to corner part of the population and brutally vent on them, next you'll need "privacy" to avoid consequences and revenge.
