Pin-the-blame is always an interesting and fun game, but please also see my post #52 above. Lies the blame in the more recent or the more past event? Egg, chicken? (Of course, if in 768 Charlemagne hadn't...and in 1155 Friedrich Barbarossa hadn't...;-))
Good point. More evil from the Kennedys. Maybe the East Germans had a point putting up The Wall.
Just to add a speculation...Germany would be better off today if the first nukes had been dropped on Hamburg and Berlin, and instead the Turks were later forced on Japan...