"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?
You are SOOooo knowledgeable! German mercenenaries were of course involved in those many wars, not because they, having no national identity other than Christianity, lusted to die in the new world for the English king ,or in Moscow for a Corscican dictator, but rather because they must have been, as only you can so brilliantly understand, bloodthisty , sub humans satisfied with a crust of bread and a roasted baby every once in a while.