They're dead. They died at Stalingrad, Monte Cassino, the Bulge, Budapest and the Ruhr Pocket.
In his book Germany and the East-West Cricis; The Decisive Challenge to American Policy (New York: McKay, 1959), Willi Schlamm, an early writer for National Review, noted that many young Germans were saying, "ohne mich" (count me out). In other words, they wanted no part of the Cold War. After two world wars they had had it. This attitude apparently survives in the current conflict between the West and Islamic terrorists.
What about the Scandinavian countries?
I'd say it has more to do with abandoning Jesus.