As a German, I do not want that current subs are named after 'WWII-heroes'...what a hero is, is everybody's own definition. Heroes for me are the German civilian and military persons, who tried to get rid of that regime...
Heroes for me are additional all military personal, which died during duty in the cold war area to protect the freedom and peace together with the NATO-Allies. In the end this led to a united Germany.
Germans have also no problems with military in general...they are just more pacifistic like most other NATO countries, which is quite natural due to the history...this is currently changing. Even left-wing parties have agreed mostly to engagements like in Afghanistan or the 'rescue' of Kosovo in 1999.
The German military forces did get some quite good marks in a recent survey, conducted by a well known institute.
http://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/bw...25y4_WMwF4Q!!/