I live in a manufacturing city in .de btw, and the "badly hit" manufacturers are hiring.
Look for the total industrial output instead.
If not, then the comparison doesn't make any sense.
With dropping demand and rising inflation, Germany has a bad economy (just as bad as the UK, but due to different reasons, the UKs main driver is Brexit).
Third, in a crisis Germans spend (even) less money for longer, while people in the US earlier overspend their credit limits. Which boosts the US economy, especially after a recession it growths earlier and faster.
Because of the bad economy BMW and other companies in Germany did not hire as many people as the US did (also compare US to German labor laws as a reason why Germany is well behind the curve when it gets to economy growth).
Ah well, I have expressed my point, it is not a popular one at HN.