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Besides the point that Deutsche Bahn is goverment owned, it is worth pointing out that Western and Eastern German had " to crumbling infrastructure, an insurmountable hardware and technical debt and now to the most complex train system probably in the world. " + much much debts.

Calling the Deutsche Bahn private is a very good indicator that the person isn't able to look up Wikipedia Article and think critically.

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The process was called Bahnprivatisierung.

See Wikipedia article here. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnprivatisierung

Translating that to english is train privatization. Does this lead to a privately OWNED company? I never said that. The decision to privatize and to make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows.

It is important to click one more on the header on Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisierung and this is refers to my POV.

In German private means privately owned. It is rare that people out of Germany care about the legal status of Deutsche Bahn thus I used the German meanings and many posters as well.

" o make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows. " I refer to the time before 30 years. It was a very problematic time in West and East Germany though were a Goverment Agency by legal.

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