I actually posed this question to an exchange student i ended up dating while she was here. She is from Dresden. Anyways, from what she said that not all German soldiers were Nazis, the same way that not all american soldiers are republicans. I got to talk on the telephone to her grandfather who was a Luftwaffe flyer and actually spent time in the U.S. in a prison camp. Turns out he supported greatly for her to see 'our beautiful country'. I don't remember exactly where, but he was somewhere in the south, Alabama maybe? He was returned to Germany after the war to his firebombed city and his family was essentially wiped out. He married a german girl not long after and their daughter born in 1954 was Franziska's (exchange student) mother. Anyways...going on and on.
Her thoughts were that she wasn't a Nazi, her parents wern't Nazis and her grandfather did what he was told by his country's leaders (who happened to be the Nazis) in order to defend his home country, which is honorable. He didn't consider himself a Nazi and did not have a terrible problem with jews. He adknowledged that most germans, whermacht included, felt they were better people but they also compared a bit of our history to that...pre-civil rights movement bit to be precise. He said we didn't round up other races and systemacially execute them, and as far as he knew thats as far as it went. It's hard to understand that not all Germans wanted all the jews killed, and hopefully Revisionist Historians will help that thought process along.
From what they said they look back upon their history and they are not proud of Nazism, fair enough. They are proud of the fight they made defending their homeland, fair enough. The Germans have nothing to apologize for in my personal opinion, and they never have. They fought with honor and I admire the Germans of that generation, but have absolute disgust for Nazis.
If this helps in any way...its all I really know on the subject.
