This video is not intended to excuse the Germans, but it does
not hesitate to expose the victorious Allies in their treatment
of the enemy at the peace, for in most cases it was not the
criminals who were raped, starved, tortured or bludgeoned to
death but women, children and old men. What needs to be
recognized here is the way that many people were allowed to
exact revenge by military commanders, even by government
ministers; and that when they did so they often killed the
innocent, not the guilty. It is true that some of the old men
and a lot of the women had voted for Hitler, but it should be
recalled once again that he never achieved more than 37.4% of
the vote in a free election, and in the last one he was down to
33.1%. This clearly indicates that even at his most popular,
62.6% of the German electorate were unmoved by Adolf Hitler's
program. Then why were the entire German people chastised and
brutally punished in 1945 and later? Some people are of the view
that, given the wartime misdeeds of the Nazis