If I recall correctly, Germans have been content on a number of occasions to destroy liberty, to the extent they ever had it. As the brains and brawn behind the EU, they are doing it again. It isn’t as spectacular as the Third Reich, just a gray, faceless, liberty-killing bureaucracy.
No German has any room to lecture anyone about liberty.
I don’t see them as an ally. And they treat countries like Hungary and Poland terribly. Can’t stand the E.U.