....we just lucked out with our blessed birth in this country in these times, that doesn't mean we are in any way better!
I never thought the day would come when I would be a better German than you are. Just kidding...
Yes, it does mean that Germans are better. By a mile. And, no, it was not luck (other than the timing) that Germany is great today. It takes a collective determination, intelligence, and a devotion to the rules of law and decency to create a society like yours.
Let me give one example how I personally benefited from this. After the Warsaw Uprising was over, my "nana" and I ended up in a camp in Hamburg. When my mother got the news, she asked a German officer who was staying with her mother in Radom to get her the necessary travel documents . He did and with it and cigarettes as a bribe, she went to Hamburg and got me out. On her way back to Warsaw, she had to seek shelter along with other German women and their kids during a raid by the Allies. Once inside, she was treated as one of them to food and diapers, with her obviously lame command of German as a clear proof that she was a foreigner and "hostile" one on top of that.
My point is that you can give Germany a lot more credit and still be factually correct.