I am sorry for your troubles. I live in Norway and have often heard tales of German bureaucratic complexity. Maybe it is a big country thing? I remember when living in the US about 20 years ago It felt like the digital Stone Age to me. I could not fathom that the country which had literally invented the internet so utterly failed to use digital communication and equipment. In the US I really learned to fill out paper forms and pay for things with a Cheques. I think people stopped using that in the 1970s in Norway.

My own speculation is that because Nordic countries are too small to really invent ground breaking things ourselves, we have learned to be rapid adopters of technology and ideas invented by others.

I have heard people remark that Germany and France are more insular than Nordics, Netherlands etc. Small trading nations are naturally very focused on what is going outside in the rest of the world. Traveling around in the world is part of the history since a Viking times. When a small primitive civilization travels a lot around the world to the most advanced civilizations, you learn quickly that the foreigners all have ideas you must learn to use and adapt to.