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No, only the superiors of the German side were about committing atrocities. The sticker underneath reads 'German prisoners-of-war watch footage of concentration camps in an American PoW camp' in German. The wehrmacht, luftwaffe and panzerdivisions were not really in charge of most of the atrocities, and the atrocities that happened in conflict areas (i.e. civilian deaths) were largely due to Soviet tactics that employed civilians to do random shit. And also because war is cruel, Russians were more cruel, and people have a tendency to get savage when they are given power.

Other Axis states (like the Italians) were so incompetent that they didn't even get to commit atrocities.

Japanese committed atrocities due to their feral warlike culture that promoted showing no mercy. It's terrible, yes, it's also war culture, so can we really blame the soldiers. :/ I studied international peacebuilding and I can say that the dilemma of justification during peacemaking is one that is very critical.

If we didn't offer Japanese soldiers amnesty from crimes, there would be such a stupid situation. It's just impossible to blame the Japanese soldiers for anything except in your head.