MUNICH — The concern of European allies about American electronic eavesdropping on their citizens is both reasonable and unresolved. What it needn’t be is close to panic-stricken.

France, with its own remarkably effective intelligence services, approaches the question with very controlled and limited indignation. The Dutch treat the issue next to not at all, in line with their model of centuries of success in avoiding controversy that holds no promise of practical yield.

But here in Germany, the political class is in an uproar. The geschrei is of American betrayal, of a government kneeling before the Yanks, and the forsaken state of the unprotected Deutsche Volk.

Since Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, dumped his accusations about the N.S.A.’s intrusive reach into European private life more than six weeks ago, Germany’s political Chicken Littles have made it the attention-getting issue in the country’s national election campaign.