Understand, Don't Judge — and Break the Witness: The Müller Method in Germany's Covid Inquiry Commission
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On April 23, 2026, the Bundestag Enquete Commission “Processing the Covid Pandemic and Lessons for Future Pandemic Events” convened in public session. Block subject: Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS) and the role of the Bundeswehr in pandemic situations. Expert witness: Stephan Kohn, former senior official at the Federal Interior Ministry (BMI), author of the 80-page internal evaluation of May 2020 that assessed the then-current Covid policy as a false alarm — a paper that has since served as a case study, depending on whom you ask, of either bureaucratic dissent or bureaucratic discipline.