What do American elderly people think of Germany and its people?

Most wouldn’t think about Germany at all.  My mom wouldn’t know a  thing about Germany or it’s customs. 

I think elderly German people are like me; we are tired, lonely, we wish family would visit more often and stay longer than the "required" one hour.  Just because we live in different countries and our governments are opposites doesn't mean actual old people are different.  We both get tired, we forget things, can't hear, we hurt, and try not to display our depression.  Dr. Kevorkian actually got it right--we need have the right to end on our game if we want to with dignity, and on our terms, and not be denied because society suddenly decides to be involved, deciding what is not good for some of us. (That means you are okay that we may have no money, no friends left, live in a home we can't afford to fix, and are lonely because no one will visit.  But when we, I, want to end it then you beat a drum about how I should be so selfish).

The only German people that I have ever known were a couple who, after the war, moved to the U.K. to settle. They lived very close to my parents and were very nice people indeed. T

I am sure that not every American elderly person will have the same feelings or opinions of, or about, German people.

Germans are decent people, I am of German descent, better than allot of nationalities IMO.

Germans got a bad rap from Hitler. But in retrospect, I have found them to be very decent and nice people. Many, many Americans are from German descendance who came over to America before and after the civil war. My dad, who was born in 1882, talked very fondly about German farmers where he grew up in West Texas.

It is evident that most of the people of Germany are horrified by the Nazi regime, and don't want it ever to happen again.  I think most elderly Americans agree on that.

Myself though, I think they have learned the wrong lesson.  They have indeed learned that evil use of force is bad.  But their conclusion has been that any use of force is bad.  They are unwilling to fight even against evil.  

But that is perhaps how the common people in Germany during the Nazi regime thought: they didn't want to fight even against evil.

It is a country and no longer Communist. SO? 

My experience with people living in Germany is that they are lazy cowardly thieves.  

Many elderly Americans - if not most - have German ancestors so I'm guessing they think highly of Germanic work ethic, intelligence, industry, self-reliance, high personal standards.  (Due to the millions of German immigrants from the 1800s until 1924, those of German ancestry comprised the largest ethnic group in the country.)