Is my American tourist visa active?

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You have two misunderstandings there.

First, the US does not use exit stamps. Departures are registered based on passport information supplied by the airlines for departing international flights. So if you boarded a flight bound for Germany, your departure is very likely to have been recorded as it should.

You can check your departure record yourself by searching for your passport details on https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/.

Second, US tourist visas do not come with a total allowance of 6 months that you need to spread out over the lifetime of the visa. The visa authorizes you to show up at a port of entry and apply for admission any number of times during its period of validity -- if the CBP officer at the border then admits you, at that point you will be granted a maximum stay of (usually) 6 months, but those months are not taken from your visa; they come directly from CBP.

The next time you enter you will usually get a full 6 months of admission again, unless your travel history or other circumstances looks like you might be trying to live in the US (in which case you can either be refused completely or granted admission for a shorter period, at the discretion of the CBP officer).

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