Here in America, a huge portion of our population has a Germanic heritage to include myself. For the most part (and we can debate gas and U-boat warfare at a later date) from 1914-1918, the Germans waged an honorable war. They fought well and smart and they took care of their enemies' POWs.
People have a tendency to root for the underdog and it can be argued that after the intial attacks in France and Belgium failed, that the war was lost. Yet they fought on against the rising tide of defeat and gave as good as they got.
Here in America the same can be said for Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The soldiers fought well but after the two crushing defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg they still fought on for nearly two years in what most of them had to realize was a lost cause.
Also enough time has passed so that to a certain extent the wounds inflicted during the Great War have healed. I would argue that the current situation in the Balkans goes back to 1453 and not 1914.
My uncle was born in Germany and moved to America when he was a small child. During the war he was a front line intrepter and wire man. He was gassed in 1918 and hated "the Germans" for the rest of his life. I remember walking beside him as a child and hearing him mutter "God damn Kaiser Bill this and God damn Kaiser Bill that." I was probably the only six-year old kid in Missouri who knew who the hell the Kaiser was. He died in 1958 from complications of being gassed forty years before.
However, for me personally, as well as most Americans, the Great War in Europe is over. I'm still too busy taking pot shots at Yankees.
VR, Scott