Alexis, I think you are thinking too deeply about these things. Sometimes, the truth is the popularly accepted narrative. The Nazis were bastards, and the German farm boys were scared of the threat from the east. Hitler got the country by the throat, and brought out the worst in them. The Jap was militant at that time. The whole thing went to hell. We fought, the good guys won, the world is a better place for it. That’s the narrative that will always make the most sense to me.