'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
"I just think that many Germans have a police gene in their genetic makeup," Volker Rieble, a law professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, told the International Herald Tribune, which then splashed the scandal across the front page. "In other countries, people aren't as vain about their titles. With this obsession for titles, of course, comes the title envy."