Would you waste your energy distinguishing nazis and Germans?

The foreign Press sometimes carries such twaddle as that the Red Army pursues the aim of exterminating the German people and destroying the German state. This, of course, is a stupid lie, and a senseless slander against the Red Army. The Red Army has not and cannot have such idiotic aims. The Red Army’s aim is to drive the German occupants from our country and liberate Soviet soil from the German-fascist invaders. It is very likely that the war for the liberation of Soviet soil will lead to the exile or destruction of Hitler’s clique. We would welcome such an outcome. But it would be ludicrous to identify Hitler’s clique with the German people, with the German state. The experience of history indicates that Hitlers come and go, but the German people and the German state remain.

~ Stalin. Order of the Day #55 February 23, 1942

The post-war Soviet Union went through great lengths examining the records of everyone involved with the invasion, cross-examining documents, conducting journalistic investigations, etc. To ensure the full measure of justice was applied to each case according to the crimes committed. There were platoons of normal army soldiers put to death for fulfilling their orders to massacre the innocent just as there were platoons of normal Army soldiers that weren’t because they were actually humans and figures out ways to not participate in the genocide of the Soviet people’s.

Justice is justice.