Germany’s post-war recovery was an economic miracle.
The country was on the rise in a good way. And then it all started going wrong.
The signs of trouble were visible long before the covid pandemic pushed us over the brink.
Journalists Will Wilkes and Chris Reiter have spent decades reporting on Germany’s problems, and they lay it all out in their new book Broken Republik.
We spoke about Germany’s worrying lack of national identity, its reliance on structure to manage interpersonal relations, and why it has Europe’s worst social mobility.
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