Actually they don't. I mean, of course, relatives are happy, if their sons and nephews come home, but there are no partys or other special ways of welcoming them.
In Germany, being a soldier has nothing to do with glory. If anybody says "I figt for my home country, I fight for Germany", people will just turn away. Or they get scared, because this still reminds of the gloryfying of war by the Nazis. And we are very serious about that.
That's why people, who celebrate the returning of a soldier - from a German's point of view - celebrate the war. It's just all about the past. And for us that's nothing to be proud of...
So Germans will not welcome home soldiers in public. Maybe the dead ones, but still, people think it's a grotesque way of celebrating war or an "heroic death" and would just avoid you in public and personally.
the Germans
US soldiers referred to Germans as "Krauts" during World War II.
In 1940, British soldiers were in France to try and stop the Germans invading. In 1944 they were in France to beat the Germans back.
Germans
18.2 million
welcome home
they calles the Germans krauts
I will feel very nervous if I were stopped by the Germans soldiers.
You can say "Dobrodošli kući" in Bosnian, which translates to "Welcome home."
welcome to my home
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Germans