^ Yeah right. Look at the german "Treuhand" and then trust the "authorities".
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37484/1.html
The factory and resource inventory of East Germany was evaluated to have a value of 600 billion Euros, in 1989.
- When the "Treuhand" ceased to exist in 1994, East Germany was ruined, eonomically.
- 85 percent of the corporations now belonged to West Germany, 2,5 million east german workers had lost their job, and the "Treuhand" had debts of some 256 billion Euros.
- So roughly estimated 865 billion Euros just .. vanished.
Certainly, the german government-industry complex may be more corrupt than other countries' governments, but i assume most just do not want to know about such things.