its not hard to make the case in favor of germany in both wars because, as this author argues, the victor writes the history;

I was born in 1944, in the final year of the Second World War (WWII). In my early childhood I lived in its shadow. We were poor, everybody we knew was poor. Food was scarce and some items were rationed until 1954. We children were taught that a famous victory had been won by the Allies, defeating the warmonger fascist Nazi Hitler and thus establishing world peace.

In recent months, however, I have been driven to re-examine that proposition. Firstly, I found a copy on an internet archive of AJP Taylor’s Causes of the Second World War, which when published in 1961 caused a rumpus.

Taylor’s thesis was that Hitler was not the demoniacal figure of popular imagination but in foreign affairs a normal German leader. Citing Fritz Fischer, he argued that the foreign policy of Nazi Germany was the same as those of the Weimar Republic and the German empire. Moreover, in a partial break with his view of German history advocated in the Course of German History, he argued that Hitler was not just a mainstream German leader but also a mainstream Western leader. As a normal Western leader, Hitler was no better or worse than Gustav Streseman, Neville Chamberlain or Edouard Daladier. His argument was that Hitler wished to make Germany the strongest power in Europe but he did not want or plan war. The outbreak of war in 1939 was an unfortunate accident caused by mistakes on everyone’s part and was not a part of Hitler’s plan. (Wikipedia)............more...........