When I was a kid I watched the WWII film “The Young Lions” on TV with my dad. It starred Marlon Brando as a German officer. There’s a scene where Brando’s character and another German are trying to escape capture from the Americans. My dad laughed at that. He said in real life they would have gladly surrendered to them.
That was a good movie
Terrible movie, but at the end of “The Battle Of The Bulge”, those Germans seemed very happy to be surrendering to the Americans.