What Was Gerta Really Thinking About the Germans?

It is characteristic of the Germans that the question, what is German, never dies out among them. Jean-Paul knew what he was doing when he declared himself incensed at Fichte's lying and exaggerations. Kotzebue certainly knew his Germans well enough. We are known, they cried jubilantly to him, but Sand also thought he knew them. He once defined the famous German turn of mind as indulgence towards its own and other's weaknesses. Was he wrong?