The Germans have been peaceful and set on business for decades but I wonder if they were motivated they could go all meanie again in short order. I remember years back when the French offered them nuclear weapons—they said thanks but no thanks. They said if they wanted one they could build there own—said they could put together an atomic bomb in less than a week! An H-bomb would take a month or so!!! I have noticed—even today—they have a sort of national arrogance. The French have it too but, save for cooking, they can’t back it up. The Germans can and do.
I went to Chicago to a building set up with Industrial Lasers and Break Presses, to learn how to run equipment that the company that I work for had bought. The guy there told as a story about an American Company that thought that they had made the worlds smallest drill bit, and was very proud of it, they sent this thing to Germany to bragg it up. The Germans sent it back with a hole drilled down the middle of the shaft.