>..that Germany has basically given UP their freedom..
Not right. The Germans in the old Reich territory were bombed, starved, raped, re-educated, plundered - all by the puppets of the "war victors".
But the war is not over - not the first and also not the second "World War".
„Glaubet nicht, dass der Deutsche seine göttliche Urheimat verloren hat, eines Tages wird er sich wachfinden am Morgen eines ungeheuren Schlafes.“ (Friedrich Nietzsche)
This day is not much further away.