not everyone in german military was a nazi. (its naive to believe that.) they may have been the head political force but that isn't everyone to think that is silly.
war isn't in black and white (like our governments would love us to believe.) but in pixelated shades of grey.
Thank you, so many people don't understand this. Ive read a lot of different books about the eastern front. Both sides committed terrible crimes. Yet there was incredible bravery and heroism and kindness from both sides as well. War brings out the worst and best in humanity. Ive read stories about Wehrmacht officers having SS arrested for shooting civilians, German soldiers saving civilians from the rear echelon murder squads (einsatzgruppen) which had large contingents of osttruppen in them. Stalin didn't sign the Geneva Convention so Hitler did not feel bound by it when fighting the Russians. Neither side is blameless in the horror.
*I agree CombatMuffin you are 100% correct.
Just a side note, the Wehrmacht hated the SS because they had ZERO control over them, what units where in their Field of Operation, they always had the best equipment and supplies and were atonimous. The SS where their own entity, they had their own hierarchy, hospitals, training schools etc. They were a paramility group for the Nazi empire.