One of the most disgusting and repugnant crimes of the Nazis was exactly what you allude to. At the time Stalin was abusing Ukraine beyond all sanity, the Nazis rolled in.
Many many Ukrainians thought the nightmare might finally be ended, because “Germans were civilized”. But instead, they turned out to be every bit as inhuman as the NKVD and added the fun Nazi homosexual twist, and German organizing skills to the games.
Its sick beyond belief to do that to those who actually thought you might be their rescuer.
A better neighbor analogy might be that a woman is being raped in her home. A neighbor smashes down the door and beats the attacker senseless. He looks at her and unbuckles his belt, saying “hey babe,, this just ain’t your day”.
Never understood this concept that Nazis are somehow anti-communist or somehow decent.
they were anti-communist, but they were not decent. Just a different kind of monster