Especially considering that while a small number of them were fighting the Anglophonic world, much more of them were doing our dirty work and fighting the USSR. I'm not taking my cues from an aging, fat, alcoholic, racist thrill-seeker and glory-hound, who did more to spread communism in Europe than anyone not directly in service to the USSR. Sorry Winston, but you've got it backwards - if the Devil invadaded the Soviet Union, I'd consider siding with Satan.

As far as the movie goes, after Death-Proof, I have abandoned any expectation of Tarantino having any ability to tell a coherent story, but I came out of IB wondering if the intent was to glorify the Germans. Brad Pitt came off as an ignoramus and a hick, and the German characters had a total monopoly on competence. The most feared member of the basterds was the German they broke out. The German sergeant who got his head bashed in demonstrated more courage than any Allied character, at all. The closest thing any of THEM demonstrated to that virtue was a reckless bloodlust. In the restaurant party, the German officer who busted them was plainly a few grades ahead of the team in the intelligence department, and had practically exposed them even before the Brit-twit (redundant? ) made his fatal slip-up. In the aftermath, the German double agent woman was the only member of the group who demonstrated the slightest sign of competence, and the whole operation would have failed abjectly if the German officer in charge of busting them up was not playing guardian angel. In retrospect, Brad Pitt's carving of the swatstika at the end makes HIM the unsympathetic character, as he was just blindly and mindlessly fighting for his country and following orders like a clockwork soldier. The German officer actually made a conscious choice, that, had he simply refrained from helping the basterds would have been completely safe, and taken one single step against them, been a German national hero as big as the sniper/movie-star.

Germans were the only people in the movie who did not have their heads totally up their asses.