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The infrastructure is crumbling, trains are regularly late, cars no longer sell themselves, and the hum of progress is drowned out by fax machines, yes, fax machines. Once dubbed an "economic miracle", Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic asks why things don't run like they used to in Germany? How did Germany lose its magic? And who’s got it now? In this new podcast from DW, you'll take a spin in fancy German cars, see why building an opera house takes forever, and travel beyond Germany — to India, France, Switzerland, and Denmark — to explore how others are getting things right, and what it would take to bring back the magic of Europe's former Wunderkind.

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