Can you deny crimes because they were the "lesser evil"? IMHO no. But interestingly,
no-racism.net, does exactly that in
this article. The article criticizes the movie "Der Untergang", by simply pulling a complete generation through the dirt (my generation grandparents, that is) and calling them murderers. My grandmother's elder brother was killed in Norway during the way, and my grandfather's elder brother was killed in Russia during the war. Both of them were drafted, none of them really wanted to go to war, but they were forced to. And both of them came from families with socialist background.
The world is not just black and white, and soldiers generally weren't considered war criminals (unless proven otherwise!), so you always have to differentiate. no-racism.net critcizes the movie for picturing
Wehrmacht soldiers as victims. Well, I do consider them to be victims in some ways, they were victims of the regime, which forced them to go to war. And how the Soviets entered Germany and Austria at the end of WW II, wasn't the nicest way, either.
The thing that I have a big problem with is that no-racism.net is denying the Soviet crimes in the 10 years after the end of the war. Taking away food and all kind of other goods "just because" cannot be denied. My grandmother told me that when they Soviets arrived at their house, the only thing that saved her family from them was one coincidence: her father helped digging tunnels in the 1920s, and there were guest workers from East Europe, including Russia. She told me that one of the first Soviet soldiers who arrived came to her father and told him, "I know you", and this very soldier told the other Soviets to leave their house alone. Of course, many other families didn't have that much luck. According to my grandmother, the Soviets didn't stay long, the French followed them, until the Brits came to stay for the next few years.
I'm really sad how no-racism.net is agitating against a whole generation, in a very primitive and undifferentiating way. But to be honest, this is what I see from the extreme leftist scene all the time. But this example is extreme, because no-racism.net is denying crimes of the Soviet, because they were the "lesser evil" because they freed us.