It's germanophile, not "germophobe" unless you actually don't like the Germans. And from great victory to such defeat there's Napoleon, who also was defeated with the Russian winter.
As for the % in automatch it's mostly in favor of Germans but not by much (like 60/40).
Yeah I think he has a good point when he say the game should focus on heroes and their bravery and not only the negative side. It's like the first coh would focus on rape, Dresden etc, most of the US players would be utterly pissed if it was the case.
And some things are really ridiculous like burning houses with your own people inside for no good reason, or killing soldiers for no good reasons (the cutscene when you win the mission where you save the main character stuck in debris). Someone said it looks like the imperial guard from 40k and I can only agree.