I've insisted time and time again on this site that the German nation was never an ally of the US and often an adversary. Many were very critical of my position.
I've seen this anti-Americanism from the Germans for decades, this is nothing new.
I agree. When we lived there 1958-1962, the Germans working in housing offices, PX, etc. were as arrogant as if they had won the war. When I told off a couple of German loafers in base housing supply, the CO called my husband's CO and told him I needed to apologize. My husband's CO told the housing officer that I did not need to because he knew me and I had to have been provoked to have told them off--which I had been.
A couple of German wives of American Officers said they hated to see their family coming to visit in the US because of the ingrained arrogance and superiority. We're speaking overall, here. Of course there are the nice exceptions.
I agree with a pullout of Germany. If we have to be over there--try Poland.
vaudine