[Barrin92]

I'd question if that's true. Research wise both applied and theoretical Germany's still a really good place to be as far as Computer Science is concerned. We're just not and never have been a consumer driven economy and that's what people focus on these days.

An example of this to me is Dickmann's autonomous cars which were driving around on highways in the 80s (https://youtu.be/_HbVWm7wdmE), yet you'd hardly think they even existed given how the rate of progress is framed in that industry by consumer products.