re: When did the German soldiers of WWII realize they were the 'bad guys'?

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Go ahead Einstein, explain how we could have had WWII without Germany invading Poland, Belgium, Russian, and France?

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I love how people like you bring up Belgium and France when the invasion of these countries was quite clearly in response to British and French declarations of war upon Germany. Germany was an aggressive state at this time, undoubtedly, but it's hilarious watching people manipulate history to water it down to child-like dichotomies of morality and responsibility.

WWII was fundamentally a result of European power balance struggles. Germany wanted to rise and challenge the status quo and Great Britain and France sought to preserve their favored positions of the status quo.

Funny that Britain offered a war guarantee to Poland in the instance of German aggression yet none for Soviet aggression. Because Germany was the primary geopolitical concern of France and Britain at the time, not the backwards USSR (who btw invaded Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland all prior to any attack by Germany upon the USSR).