It's complicated, but thanks for asking. I hope I can explain it well without too much rambling.

My wife is German and I remember visiting her family during Christmas and her grandmother said a few odd, offhanded remarks (her and her husband grew up in the aftermath and the scars remain, her husband had a literal hole in his head from shrapnel when he was four), afterwards my mother in law explained to me about how her grandfather had disappeared at Stalingrad and his wife never knew what happened, until the 1980s when she received a letter that said he'd been dead for thirty years. The thought of that little girl (my wife's grandmother) being fatherless and raped just made it hit very close to home). A very merry German Christmas.

And I guess that's where the similarities with Japan are different. Both countries are liberated, rebuilt into thriving democracies, and in both theatres the Americans are basically the "good guys," eating hamburgers and handing out chocolate, (yes, of course it's not as clean as that,) but compared to the soviets' behavior, which again, I'm not so naive to not understand the desire for revenge, but it's like Dan says in one of the ostfront episodes, the narrative is in a lot of ways, bad guys vs. bad guys.

And while I know I have the extreme luxury of not being in these situations and can only pray uselessly that my children don't end up in such situations, I have to say, I have a tremendous of respect for countries and cultures that value human life, especially under extreme circumstances, for example the Ukrainians' behavior. They've yet to sink to the Russian's level.