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I didn't dare to mention it in my first post, as I am talking about my very own country, but yes I do think too that summed up Germany would be the most aggressive nation in world history...
Not only that the wars we fought and our persecutions of people were priceless in cruelty and inhumanity, but there is also a saying that if we didn't notoriously try to conquer the world, it was simply because we couldn't due to disunity and quarrels among ourselves.
If it wasn't about conquering the Roman Empire, crusades in the Middle East, genocide of Slavs during the east colonization, endless wars and aggressions against our neighbours in France, Austria, all baltic and central European states, colonization overseas, massacre with first introduction of concentration camps in Namibia (or then South-West Africa), starting the first World War, starting a second World War with a genocide in which over 50 million people were massacred,
then it was about internal quarrels like the Thirty Year's War (during which two thirds of the German population got killed), or simply other disunity.
So it wasn't really a surprise to us that many people in the world hold their breath when the two German states united in 1990, because that would have been a premiere in World History that all of Germany would be united WITHOUT starting to mobilize a huge army for conquering purposes.
Some asked me in another thread why I wasn't proud of being a German. Well, just look at it's history! Nevertheless, I DO feel proud of belonging to a very special generation of Germans![/QUO