User blog comment:Alexmason68/The Past/@comment-25285565-20160530041708/@comment-1187559-20160530190250

Thing is, there is not high ground of WW2. Just look at the bombing of Dresden. Russia was likely guilty of a lot them as well (remember the scene in WaW where Reznov sets surrendering Germans on fire). And of course WW2 ended with the US dropping Nuclear weapons on 2 civilian targets.

Yes what the Nazis did was evil, but it never had any impact on why we fought the war. WW2 started with similar reasons to WW1. WW1 was a clusterfuck of alliances, but WW2 started because England stated if Germany invaded Poland we would go to war, and they did. We didn't know about the holocaust until several years in to WW2. And to be honest with you, I think most of the Werhmacht get demonised because of the Nazis. The Nazis were a political group and many of them didn't serve in the armed forces. Or if they did, it doesn't mean they held their ideals. Most likely just followed Hitler because he did a damn fine job of rebuilding Germany. Most people forget that Hitler did many advancements to Germany and got in to power because he was a damn good politician.

You honestly can't go for just stating Germany was evil because of what Hitler did. In fact, some of the worst war crimes were committed by the Japanese performing biological experiments on POWs, many of which were civilians, men women and children. At the end of the war the Japanese scientists were granted immunity for these crimes by the US in return for the reserach, so that really takes out the "good vs. evil" element of WW2.