Deo, sadly the unit he was in makes no difference to the popular opinion. In the eyes of most people, but especially in the eyes of Jewish organizations, every German is the same.
A graveyard somewhere in the Netherlands held the graves of some allied soldiers, as well as some Luftwaffe personel that crashed around the area during the war. During the 4th of May (That's the Commemoration of the Death-day) the mayor of the city wanted to organize a walk passed the graves, including the Luftwaffe personal. A local choir would then sing a few songs, including a German one. Sounds very peaceful, right? But what if these Germans were actually war criminals? No worries: the city hired a researcher who showed that all men had a completely clean record and were just a few poor sods who had the misfortune to be born in Nazi-Germany.
So all was well, was it not? Nope. A Jewish organization went on full alert, said this was a smack in the face of all Holocaust-victims and -survivors, and so on. They put so much pressure on the city council that the mayor decided to cancel the song, but would still have the walk-past the graves. The Jews were still not content, but I've forgotten whether the mayor also cancelled the walk or not. In any regard, it shows how things are here.
