WWII Thread (How come the West never gives the Soviets the credit they deserve)

[ArnoldRimmer]

I agree that the perception of WWII is unbalanced.

For example, as a child I was personally not very interested in WWII, as it was something that happened already several decades before I was even born. The only "knowledge" I had about it was from school, movies etc.

What I remember however is that because most WWII-based-movies concentrate strictly on US soldiers, western germany was (and still is) crowded with US soldiers etc., I was as a kid somehow under the impression that the USA was pretty much the only army fighting Germany. Likewise, because of the plethora of holocaust movies, and german school education about the nazis focussing pretty much solely on the holocaust, I was somewhat under the impression that the only noteworthy victims of WWII were 6 million jews.

So personally I'd blame a lot of my own unbalanced childhood perception of WWII on the somewhat limited focus of american-made WWII-movies that made me believe "WWII = D-Day + Auschwitz"...