Events need to be like stories. We need a Baddie and a Goodie. Real life is almost never this simple. Who is to be the Baddie?

The great thing about this is the Nazis were utterly defeated and rendered illegal as a political force. So, we can blame them for everything and make them Baddies. As a consequence everyone else can be on the goodie side - the French as resistance fighters, not as collaborators for example.