Michael, I know that I have told you before about why I have the feelings that I do towards Germans. I will inform you again .. and you, as well, Prodigal Son. However, I know in advance what your responses will be .. Michael, you've already given me yours once before, and so I can see the result of this already, but I will try.
Just going to and from my kaserne resulted in my being spit upon, shoved, verbally harassed, and physically harassed by those representatives of the German citizenry who decided to oppose the US government's decision for the deployment of Theater Nuclear weapons. When waiting at a strassenbahn stop, I was assaulted by a crowd .. polite language for "mob" .. of college-age Germans (who, when the Protesting Season began, never seemed to actually BE in classes) and was put in the hospital for six days with a concussion after being struck in the back and head with a steel pipe. After I went down, I was kicked repeatedly in the head, sides, and back by these "peaceloving" thugs. From what I was told, no German made a move to stop the assault and it appears it was only broken up when some passing polizei intervened. No German was ever arrested much less prosecuted for it; the attitude appeared to be "Oh, it was just high-spirited college students exercising their rights to protest."
Some time later, my Australian wife, while enroute from the commissary to our apartment, was standing at the strassenbahn stop near the PX/commissary, waiting for the streetcar with her cart of groceries. This was a place where the "anti-war/anti-American" protesters regularly hung out because they could harass soldiers' wives and children. Three of your wonderful children approached my wife and began verbally haranging her. True to our briefings to be "good neighbors and visitors to their country," she ignored them. Then one shoved her and another pushed her cart off the platform onto the tracks. None of the German citizens there made a move to intervene. One of the thugs was carrying an anti-American sign (cardboard on a four or five foot long 2x2). She grabbed the sign away from him and proceeded to beat the three of them bloody. They all took off running as the polizei and MPs intervened. Care to guess who the polizei wanted to arrest? Right ...
The German police questioned her and released her to the MPs. The MPs released her to me and, that afternoon, with my company commander's permission, we drove to Holland where I put her on a plane for home. The company commander moved me into the barracks and, as soon as I could process out, I was transferred back to the States. For all I know, there may still be warrants out for either of us.
So, there you have it. Those are my reasons. As I said, they are personal and are not likely to change any time in the foreseeable future. Governmental and political decisions on the part of the German government, as well as the outright ingratitude of the German population for the number of years that we protected them .. with our lives and wealth .. have been enough for me to confirm in my own mind that I am right.
Go to war with the Germans? Well, I'd much rather it was France or Belgium, but I, for one, would volunteer to be re-called for that purpose.
So make of that what you will.