Being German, let me just spell out what the article mostly implies about Germans' attitude towards mentions of WW2: It's absolutely not a taboo of any kind to

Being German, let me just spell out what the article mostly implies about Germans' attitude towards mentions of WW2: It's absolutely not a taboo of any kind to bring up the war, or the Holocaust. To some degree, it's annoying that one country, and one country only, tends to go for it as their very first association when learning that you're German (this doesn't happen nearly as often with French or Americans, for some reason). If you imply that the German you're talking to must be disappointed about the Nazi's loss they might get irritated, but are more likely not to even understand it because it's a rather remote idea from their perspective. Now let me spill the secret of how to really annoy a German, a method perfected by, in my limited experience, mostly taxi drivers in arabic and asian countries: Profess your own disappointment in Germany's loss, and insist that Hitler was the greatest humanitarian ever. (This happens so often, one time a taxi driver in Istanbul started with "you know very best German of all time?" and my group started collectively rolling their eyes and looking at their feet, only for the driver to continue with "Jürgen Klinsmann")