What do modern German citizens feel about the defeat in WW2 and division of Germany? [closed]

Question

What do modern German citizens feel about the defeat in WW2 and division of Germany in the hands of USA + UK?

How do they feel about the current presence of 52440 US troops in the soil of Germany?

Answer 1

As a "modern" German citizen (student) I can say that there is division of opinions.

There are those people really hating Americans because they intervened in WW2, but those are mostly elder people belonging to a very small minority. As there are people hating Americans there are also people having prejudices against British, also because there seem to be many British who do not like Germans.

The broad majority disassociates oneself from Nazi-Germany and many people see British and particularly Americans as their friends because especially American soldiers helped to rebuild the country. Only one example is that the Germans in Berlin, which was divided into four districts (France, GB, USA, UdSSR), were supplied with food by American planes when the UdSSR closed the borders to the capital. (Although Berlin was divided into four zones it was surrounded by the Sovjet zone). My grandfather also told me that the children in his village really liked American soldiers because they distributed chewing gums and other sweets. Later my grandfather had lived in America for some years and he often returns to visit some parts of our family or just to go on vacation.

Today Germany is living a modern and liberal lifestyle and young Germans are like young Americans, liking to make parties, listening to good, mostly English, music etc.

I guess, most of all Germans would like to roll back in time to undo both World Wars. Nobody has forgotten our past, but often it is unfair for the younger generations to be treated like new Nazis.

EDIT:

How do they feel about the current presence of 52440 US troops in the soil of Germany?

If you don't live near Rammstein/other American military bases, you will not even recognize them. But in Rammstein they are relatively present as there are American schools and supermarkets and English is even an official language for local authorities.