Hitler was evil. Of course, we cannot excuse the Holocaust at all.
But the Americans had so much more in common with the German soldiers.
Yet we ended up having the Soviets as our allies.
When Goering surrendered to the Americans, he was the life of the party. He carroused with the soldiers.
Only because Germany declared war on the US after we had declared war on Japan. That occurred after Japan had attacked our Naval Base Pearl harbor on Oahu on Dec. 7th, 1941.