Is Germany still a Threat?
The last words of British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore were: "The Germans started World War I. The Germans started World War II. Mark my words: the Germans are going to start World War III!".
The Vilna Gaon (see RABBIS QUOTED) held that the Germans were of the seed of Amalek, and because of this Rabbi Chayim Sonnenfeld (1848-1942 leader of the extreme Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem) refused to go out to see Kaiser Wilhelm when he visited Jerusalem in 1898 saying "The Germans exhibit the classic symptoms of Amalek - externally polite and friendly, but harboring a deep and bitter hatred of the Jewish people". The Gerer Rebbe (possibly "Bais Yisroel" see RABBIS QUOTED) stated that there were many descendants of the Amalekites amongst modern Germans.
WW1 indeed began on the Jewish national day of mourning, Tisha b'Av 1914. Adolf Hitler himself, one of the few lowly corporals to win the coveted Knight's Cross in WW1, was conceived on Tisha b'Av (9th of the Hebrew month Av,. date on which the Temple was destroyed) 1888! "Men think that Berlin is the new Jerusalem. But the coming storm of destruction will emanate expressly from Berlin" (Rabbi Simcha Meir of Dvinsk author of "Meshek Chochman", 1925). "The 12 million dead of the Great War? That was child's play. The real thing will start in ten years time!" (Coafetz Chayim 1929).
Many regret that the atom bomb came too late to be used on German cities in 1945, and that the Morgenthau Plan was never implemented after the war: the destruction of all German industry and the plowing over of the German Plain to reduce it to a permanent agrarian society, ensuring that a new generation of Teutons would never again threaten humanity: "Should Germania of Edom they ever sally forth from their land, they will attempt to destroy the entire world" (Talmud Megillah 6).
At their best, the Germanic peoples are without peer. But at their worst, history has repeatedly shown how their famed Gemutlichkeit (geniality) can quickly change to their equally famed Furor Teutonicus. Never forget that the perpetration of the Holocaust required the full cooperation of the German scientists, doctors, judiciary, financiers, press, industrialists, railwaymen, Red Cross, church, and diplomats.
Let us pray that the new generation in the reunified Germany does not come under the category of "unity for the wicked is bad for them and bad for the world" (Sanhedrin 71). Ominously, Germany is depicted as being among the armies invading Israel in the War of Gog and Magog: "Gomer and ALL her battalions" (Ezekiel 38:6): "Gomer is Germania" (Talmud Yoma 10). The word "ALL" is significant, because until 1990, it was not possible for a divided Germany to send troops from both East and West. Now reunified, they can! See "Edom and Germany", Yair Davidiy Jerusalem 2015
See Also:
Amnon Goldberg, "Germany and WW3"
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/goldbergww3.html