>>2464334 (lb)
Ah, you noticed.
Plenty decent people over there but yes, exactly as you put it.
It accounts for their very strange, warped (absent?) sense of humor.
They've been patsies twice in a row in the span of less than a century and are set up to be had a third time now and they are only now starting to wake up REAL SLOW .
But boy, when they get angered and go unhinged…
That fantastic 'wirtshaftswunder' and unequaled 'Deutsche Grundlichheit' might eventually pop up (rear it's head) and have its word to say, sieg heil, but I dare doubt it for the reason you mentioned alas.