That's a bit revisionist. Germany was definitely punished through occupation, partition, forced resettlement of its people, forced ceding of territories to oth

That's a bit revisionist. Germany was definitely punished through occupation, partition, forced resettlement of its people, forced ceding of territories to other countries, reparation payments, exportation of its industry, and forced labor by its POWs. But in terms of feeling national guilt, that wasn't much of a thing immediately post war. The national reckoning for the Holocaust and dismantling of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht and such didn't happen until decades later, the 68 movement was a major catalyst in this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_German_student_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_German_student_movement.