ID requirement to halt freedom of information in Germany

The title is very misleading: it is about, apparently (the article could be much clearer), a mandate to identify oneself when «request[ing] official information from federal authorities».

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https://archive.ph/HOliF

> The Interior Ministry justifies the initiative with hybrid threat scenarios and relieving the administration.

One of the "benefits" of wartime is that it becomes publicly acceptable for a government to paint its own citizens as a threat.