What's there to be grateful for? Millions of deaths and half the world enslaved? Saving Uncle Joe Stalin's chestnuts? All the new cases of veneral disease brought back? All the post-war divorces that gave the jump start to the divorce industry? The Veterans in my family realize what a stupid and brutal war it was.
If you think I'm being vile, why not look up how many condoms the US Army distributed per month during WWII? Why not ask an older German lady what the loaded question "Spazierengehen Fraulein?" meant when coming from a Army man in 1946?