I too am appalled by the inefficiencies of the bureaucracy of the Gestapo. A serious threat to the state and the people could take days to reach the correct authorities. Only zhast month a smuggler escaped zhe guards, no doubt an agent of foreign intelligence.
I get the joke, but this is kind of why the security issue matters
Btw, Germans have no problem with pronouncing the letter L (before a vowel, anyway)
East Germans also wouldn't criticize the Statsi as a show of loyalty, and nobody would read about a security failure in the state news. So the story must be told by one of its characters. :-)