Americans are fat and stupid and hedonistic. They never bother to learn a second language while most Europeans speak 3 even.
Russians are nice people but poor and stupid peasants who are superstitious. He said, and I can still hear him saying this today - "The Russians will never get anywhere".
The Russians and Serbs and the Orthodox church, because we resist westernization, because we skipped the Renaissance and had no Reformation, are considered backward.
Because we rely on a view of Christianity which emphasizes the soul, the heart, and a mystical personal communion with God, rather than rational, logical approaches ( which we actually deny as useful when it comes to knowing God), we are seen as ignorant.
So I truly believe in my heart that the Germans ( just as the rest of those who attempted to convert us, at times by the sword in the past) are just trying to lift we ignorant, superstitious peoples out of our backward swamp. But to stand by as ancient buildings were destroyed was unthinkable, and for that I can offer no excuse.