A commenter made a good point: The Germans have been pacified into girly men; they are old and dont the stomach for conquest.
In his book Germany and the East-West Crisis (New York: McKay, 1959)Willi Schlamm observed that such an attitude was already taking hold among the German equivalent of the Baby Boomers during the 1950's.
15 posted on 05/22/2010 2:57:24 PM PDT by Fiji Hill