Germans have a pacifist streak, but in a conformist, controlling, leftist- fascist kind of way.
It seems like a paradox, but I know these people well.
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.”Given what Björn Höcke recently exposed among crowds of Germans by the rhetoric he used, things are more precarious than that.
— Hermann Goering
And that pacifist streak historically is followed by a “well that didn’t work, so let’s take over Europe” phase.
Two world wars killed off all the alpha males.