just a few things
I am missing the comraderie thing in aviation a lot. It eases the workday and makes comments and recommendations easier to accept for everybody. The non comraderie thing is that people report each other for all sorts of nonsence as low as jealousy. This leads to tensions and unnecessary frictions and thus lowers safety considerably. So far about comraderie.
Someone also wrote German Gradutes leave the country
because the university structures are so hierarchic.(Article in the NYT). Well many graduates leave because they get an excellent! education in Germany and then ofcourse they are very interessting for the Americans who shower them with money to come across. Also another reason is that there is a weak link between universits and the industry to bring the first class german university research results into industrial application.(eg Fax machine, MP3 Player etc). The argument of Herr Professor or Herr Capitaen i see as the usual German bashing that some british unfortunately engage in.