“I don’t think their present state compares with their state at the end of WWII, when the entire country was demolished by bombing and all their factories were carted off to Russia, along with anything else on wheels.”
The dynamic for the neurotic, doom and gloom old goats on FR requires that everything is worse than before, that the world is on the edge of apocalypse and that nothing can be done. This allows them to exercise the surrender monkey ceremony of running around in circles like chickens with their heads cut off.
Postwar Germany had a lot of financial and practical aid from the Marshall Plan. Also, the Germans still had enough of a work ethic to rebuild and create in West Germany during 1949-1956 an "economic miracle." Even East Germany had the highest standard of living among the Communist Bloc.
Do Germans today still have that work ethic? I don't know. But they seem to have been ravaged by liberalism, let alone Islam.