For me it would be those who want to redeem nazi germany ,those who want to downplay nazi atrocity or make the ally look as bad (note: I know the ally did bad thing, but that doesn’t mean they were as bad as what the nazi did with the holocaust or wanted to do with their lebensraum or general plan ost). And I also don’t understand why the myth of the apolitical Wehrmacht is still so persistent to this day (I think we should have more documentary showing how nazified and “war crimy”[sorry ,couldn’t find a better expression,I’m still french]the Wehrmacht was).
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It has to do with the legacy of the Cold War.
The western world essentially allowed the Germans to downplay their crimes for decades (with the exception of the Holocaust against the Jews). This was done because they wanted the Soviet Union to look as bad as possible, so basically 20 million deaths were outright shifted from Hitler’s column into Stalin’s.
Not that the Stalinist regime wasn’t bad. It was, very bad. Millions of deaths (12-15 million estimated by post-Soviet research) that need no exaggeration.
The myth of the clean Wehrmacht was pushed post-war by German generals who shifted the blame for everything to the SS, which is a gross distortion because the Wehrmacht is responsible for more deaths than the SS ever was. Generals like Halder were hired by the Americans to write the German version of the history of the war, and denying their own crimes was the thing that the German generals were most interested in.
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didn’t german general also blamed hitler for every mistake of the third reich (like halder did)