More than 180 people die in a flood disaster.
Not anywhere, in a developing country.
But deep in western Germany.
A failure of reporting systems, because there were warnings days before, a failure of authorities who evacuate too late.
The Ahr valley was hit particularly hard.
In the rural wine-growing region, 134 people died in one night.
It's been a year since the catastrophe.
Timo Steppat
Editor in Politics.
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Pastor Jörg Meyrer from Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler has helped many affected people as a pastor.
Do people doubt God or the state more?
Many flood victims, some of whom have lost everything, are angry.
They should get help unbureaucratically - but the money for the reconstruction is slowly flowing in.
Disaster researcher Frank Roselieb took a look at what went wrong in the Ahr Valley - and what needs to change in civil protection in the future.
Deputy Stephan Wefelscheid (free voters) on the work of the committee of inquiry in Rhineland-Palatinate and the findings so far.
He says: "Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong."
Also: How the federal government wants to take over competences from the federal states as a result of the flood - and how the federal states are reacting to it.