We were also closer to the Russians in the '30's and '40's... Germany is a little bitch nation.
Yeah, we won't ever learn, nor, evidently, will those rascally Germans. Unless you are blonde-haired & blue-eyed, don't even ask for the german people to give a damn (they seem to get some kind of perverse thrill when Kurds are gassed - guess it has to do with that distastefully unaryan brown skin.) And let's not even talk about hooked noses, tsk-tsk.