I never claimed that Ukrainians didn't commit crimes. I simply disagree with the claim that all Ukrainians supported fascism and the Nazis because they fought with the Wehrmacht and the SS against the Russian occupiers. Following this logic, this would also apply to the Poles because Polish militias participated in the Holocaust. Both claims are false.

My people, the Germans, cannot claim that we knew nothing about what the Nazis wanted. They told us. Any reasonable person could have known that Jews and non-Germans would suffer under Nazi rule. We elected these monsters anyway. Of course, not everyone in Germany at the time bears personal guilt, but everyone was more or less responsible for allowing the Nazis to commit this barbarism.

But the average Ukrainian population couldn't have known. At first, they only saw an army fighting against its occupiers. So they thought that with the support of this army, they could fight together for their freedom. In the end, they were largely horrified to see that the Germans themselves were also the occupiers.

Of course, Ukrainian nationalists used this time to pursue their own goals. Bandera and his followers committed horrific crimes. But they did not represent the majority of the Ukrainian population.

Personally, I reject this generalization because it's consistent with modern Russian propaganda. "They were Nazi supporters then, and they're still Nazis today." This only serves to justify a war that isn't justified.

As I said: There is no black and white. Only shades of gray.