We all might benefit by working on this simple reality "a little'. In the modern era, say the last millenium, the German people lost half their territory to france, Italy , russia, Poland, Czechs in fact every neighbor and its enclaves afield heve been expelled or more likely exterminated. During most of this era there was no hint of German militarism , in fact no German Army, in fact no German nation state. It was actually mostly Mozart.
"there was no hint of German militarism..."
Really? Where did the Hessian mercenaries come from during our revolution? How about the battle of Austerlitz during the Napolean era? The reality is that the various German tribes and principalities were always involved in some way or another in Europe's wars and when the German nation was formed, they roared out of the blocks into a war with France (Franco-Prussian War). The only territory Germany "lost" was when they lost an aggressive war with its neighbors.
As I said in an earlier post, Germany has not been involved in a defensive war to protect its territory (other than the Roman invasion) without having first attacked its neighbors.
There is an emerging tendency for Germans with short memories to indulge in victimhood. None of the things that happened to Germany weren't brought on by their own actions. What did they think would happen to them if they lost a war - particularly the kind of war they prosecuted - with the Russians?