While Germans aren't as bad as the French, they do seem to generally have an attitude of "I speak German, so you speak German." I live near the Dutch coast and we get overrun by German tourists every summer here to the point where walking through the city center makes it feel like you're in Germany. And they refuse to address you in any language other than their own (when someone asks me for directions I usually switch to English right away because I am fairly fluent in English and my German grammar and vocabulary is quite poor, but that only seems to work about half the time). They simply just assume that everyone here speaks German. You didn't win the war you fucking fat fucks! But to be fair, yes, Germans do atleast have some portion of the population that has some decent knowledge of the English language.
The French on the other hand, they are just too arrogant and nationalistic to even bother. I've gone on vacation to France atleast 15 times and rarely have we found campsites where the person behind the front desk spoke anything but French. And they don't even have the decency to slow the fuck down when they talk to you despite the fact that you are obviously a foreigner and looking very confused.
And in the more rural areas of Spain and Italy you can also pretty much forget to get by with English (though I'm guessing that has more to do with lack of education).
