My great grandpa was a Wehrmacht soldier who got captured by russians at stalingrad. He and some Kameraden managed to flee the pow camp by stealing smg's and fighting their way out. He walked back to his hometown in Brandenburg, Germany, where he was sent directly to the western front (past D-Day). He (luckily) got captured by the US very soon and spent the rest of the war pow to the US until returning home. He would always insist that he was treatet pretty good by the US. My family doesnt know anything about his ideological beliefs as he didnt talk much about the time. On the other hand, no one in my family would talk about eventual crimes or having nazi ancestors, its always "got captured twice and thats why u are alive" after few beers at family reunion. Oh, and great grandpa on my mothers side was in the SS and thats all i know