Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
What they did back then was to basically fire the entire civil service of the nation.

If that's not a guaranteed screw-up, nothing is.
It is. "On a daily basis, rule is primarily instituted by the government's bureaucracy." Max Weber

I remember how people liked to draw analogies between Iraq and Nazi Germany becoming a democracy after WW2.
In fact, the elites of 1950s and 1960s Western Germany were to a large percentage Nazis.