And consider PFRA (agricultural funding almost bank). When the feds really got going they started to enlist other areas of government to identify and weed out dissenters. If you can find the stories on line you would think someone got an old copy of a Stasi operational manual. And the civil servants just went along blindly - mostly without question. I don't think anyone has to puzzle about how the Germans allowed their govt to go completely off the rails. Canada has provided a small sampling of how easy that is.