It is a very controversial issue! I am Cuban but I live in Germany and I have always liked history and especially German history. Imagine that when my son was born I started with the idea that in the future, just because he was born in Germany, anyone would have the right to call him a Nazi and he would have to suffer the self-flagellation that I see every day here in Germany with that holocaust theme and how bad the Nazis were. Even very smart people from here find it very difficult to accept the idea that perhaps it may not have been as told in the history books. Well, the world is responsible, basically every year, to remind them how "bad they were", especially Hollywood, then people are afraid that if they start complaining they will be called Nazis so they keep quiet.
Anyway, I started reading and seeing videos about the subject and it happened to me exactly the same as you. Let's be clear that it was a war and atrocious and bloody acts were committed from all sides, all of them of course unacceptable and inhumane. But from what I have been able to appreciate and so far nothing has pointed out the opposite, other than the history books written by those who won the war or Hollywood, is that the Holocaust did not happen as they say and that basically using the word holocaust is wrong by definition. As well as many of the tests that were presented in Auschwitz to demonstrate how bad the Nazis were, for example the famous lamp made of supposed human skin and pieces of skin with tattoos were not used in the Nuremberg trial because it was false evidence. Also the two film directors that the allies brought to make the documentaries that were taught around the world showing how bad the Nazis were, were named Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder (you know who they are, I imagine?).
And then to top it all, you get things like the Paperclip operation and the Gladio operation appear and you do not know what to think anymore. As I say at the beginning ... a very controversial issue!
i couldn't agree with you more on all points