“As far as the Russians were concerned, they were getting some of their own back.”
Germany (and Austria) used the same logic; Poland was re-created from territory of all three after WWI. That same defense could be used by the USSR for keeping the Baltic states (and trying for Finland); all four were created from Tsarist Russian territory.
“If we wanted to fight Germany, we had to collude with the Soviets.”
As with WWI, we had little reason to fight Germany. In any case, Germany achieved its goal (domination of Europe) and the views held by the Nazis (post-Christian paganism) also dominate.
Ummm, there was this little issue of Germany declaring war on us... I know our anti-sub patrols were, perhaps, a bit provocative, but they didn’t declare war on us until the Japs attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
Once they did that, it was on.
Have to agree with you on the last part. The EU ended up mostly “Juden-rein” and is largely dominated by Germany. Dunno that Reich would have tolerated the Muzzies, though.