Which genocide is a “minor faux pas” at all? And which murder can be called “minor”? Killing a human being is the ultimative crime. One can distinguish between the number of victims, but murder always is the most severe crime. No other nation has “made up” with its dark chapters of history like Germany, though there are many which are guilty of genocide, too. The relationship Germany has with Israel today is a great example that forgiving (a country) doesn´t mean forgetting.
Europe in general, and up through WWII has a long, sad record of anti-Semitism, definitely not limited or even historically (before the Nazis) primarily in Germany. As a matter of fact, one reason there were so many Jews in Germany before the Nazis is that Germany had a long record of tolerance...unlike most of the rest of Europe.
Even since the war, Germany has been the scapegoat for much of the atrocities which Austria was nearly equally culpable for, as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, (Vichy) France, among others. And since the war, Germany has done the most, compared to all of Europe, to make amends—even though those in power now, and for a long time now, had nothing to do with the Nazi dictatorship.
The vast majority of Germans alive today are as appalled, or more, to what happened 65+ years ago, as any American or Israeli. Germany has definitely changed—and changed more than the rest of Europe for sure.