User blog comment:Alexmason68/The Past/@comment-25285565-20160530041708/@comment-1187559-20160530195920

Thing is, we'll always document when the Wehrmacht do something wrong. Hell, history is written by the victor so chances are we really went out of our way to demonise them.

But keep in mind we all think the German army are pure evil from WW2, and yet from Vietnam we have the Napalm attacks as well as this image: a US soldier executing an innocent man because he might be Vietcong, yet how often do you here about the war crimes of the US in Vietnam? Not very often at all. Because of the actions of Hitler we have been given so much information about how Germany between 1939 and 1945 was the most evil nation on Earth. The same has happened to the "barbarians" of the Roman era. Many of the most brilliant nations have been degraded to simple savages, and their names have become something negative, such as the Vandals.

WW2 was not a clear cut good vs evil as it is often portrayed to be. England and France got involved because Germany invaded Poland which they were told not to do or war would be declared. Then we kept fighting because they were bombing our homes. Then they invaded Russia, so Russia fought back in retaliation for invading their home. The US got involved because of Pearl Harbour, and if the Japs hadn't allied with Germany, chances are the US may have never entered in Europe (one of the reasons they didn't is because they're a nation of immigrants, some of which German). The actions of the Wehrmacht and Hitler all came to light either late or after WW2 took place. We fought because Germany threatened our island. France fought because Germany took their home. Russia fought because they got invaded by the country that stated they wouldn't invade. And Germany fought because they wanted to recreate the grand nation of Prussia that the allies culled in WW1. All the countries had their reasons for fighting WW2, but at their core, it was never to stop evil, it was a case of total war where if we didn't throw everything we had in to the effort, we would be conquered.