War has a feminine face...

I watched the movie. :) It showed that Russians were really "burning" (sorry for the pun) Germans, but only after shooting them first. And along with them, they also executed traitors. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with that. They deserved it.


Soldiers are not all the same. Of course, most Germans probably wouldn't have been thrilled with what their command was doing. But you forget that all the atrocities (when they made soap from people, etc.) weren't widely publicized. It all came out later, when the USSR and the Allies got their hands on the materials related to this...

Secondly, there were the SS, executioners, and other monsters – troops of a completely different category. In my opinion, this is the same as gathering a battalion of maniacs and arming them with excellent weapons, calling them elite units. These people really understood what they were doing, and they were completely sane when they destroyed innocent people. It's not surprising that by the end of the war, most of them rushed to get rid of their black SS uniforms, and "cuckoos" (by the way, see the movie of the same name) were specifically dressed in SS uniforms so that they wouldn't suddenly have the desire to surrender.

Apparently, the Russians (and not only them) had good reasons to hate them...