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Possibly, Andrew, but there's more to it than that.
You may have a slightly rose-tinted view of postwar Germany than, for example, me. Fact is that the Allied countries pumped more than they could afford into rebuilding Germany after WW2 and in the case of the United Kingdom, that was to the detriment of rebuilding our own country. A strong case could be made for saying that it would have been better to have let Germany stew in its own juices rather than sacrifice economic regrowth for something as noble as humanity; and, if I'm honest, for pragmatism too, otherwise the Russians would have taken Germany over lock, stock and barrel.
Your quip that Germany still has a manufacturing industry is also not quite as black and white as you make out. Without the use of cheap Turkish labour for the past twenty five years, the motor industry of which Germany is rightly proud would not exist in its current form and they, too, would be mostly driving round in Korean and Chinese tin boxes.
I accept that there is undoubtedly anti-German sentiment aplenty, but given the history between our two countries I think that is only to be expected; I do believe, however, that those sentiments are diminishing as the older generations die off.
I can tell you that the Germany I grew up in from a very early age was no whiter-than-white chapter of victimology; my father and his chums were openly spat at, had their car tyres slashed and were refused service in shops and restaurants as soon as the proprietors found out they were British servicemen. Despite that, I don't hate the Germans on grounds of ignorance, jealousy or any unwillingness to accept responsibility for my mistakes (although I'm not quite sure what you mean by that last bit), in fact I don't hate the Germans at all. What I do hate is that Great Britain is paying in the region of €50m per day for supporting what is clearly idealism; the EU is innately flawed and our money is being used to stop egg landing on the faces of the French and German politicians who refuse to give up on something that doesn't work.
Whilst the popular press' headlines may phrase that in more eye-catching terms - and by that I mean the usual xenophobic insults that always arise when the word 'Germany' crops up - the fact remains that you are tarring everyone with the same brush, which conveniently hangs a peg on the 'Xenophobic Little Britain' tag and, as I said in the opening sentence, there is more to it than that.