Why should we care? Descriptions of that war commonly state or imply Germany was doing something uniquely evil or wrong, usually the word slave gets into it. And rarely is what the other nations were doing mentioned. This is neither condemning nor apologizing. It is knowing.

So let us look at their common characteristics. And in passing we note that the US is the only major exception to these characteristics even though it shared them to some extent. The US empire would have about 1/10 of it citizens under rather improper conditions and by law.

As to improper conditions, there were and still are different vocabularies for Allies and Axis. This is propaganda speech at it worst and we all know it is true. If we can use the word "slave," the term "slave nations" and "enslave" only for Germany and subjects no matter how unwilling for those of England, we do not need a George Orwell to point out we are in the realm of propaganda.

We also know that comparing Britain in South Africa to Germany at the time of conquest is not valid. When we compare Britain at the time of conquest of South Africa to Germany at the time of conquest of Poland we find death camps in South Africa for women and children.

WWII was the war for democracy. Sounds good. Let us pass over the obvious that Stalin, our Russian Ally was a one party democracy no different in that sense from Mussolini's Fascists.

Let us note that only about 10% of the British empire had the right to vote, an issue subtly raised in the American colonies in 1776.

France was not as successful as Britain so in one way of counting it is better, 20% of its empire could vote.

As to the vocabulary of enslaved nations. The percentages for Britain and France are quite good enough. The total of the two approaches half of the population of planet earth at the time.

As to Russia and enslaved, let us look at the facts. If we subtract (null the intersection if you were a new math type kid) and look at only the none Russian nations in the USSR, we find some 15 nations comprising about 2/3rds of the land and population being enslaved in the vocabulary used for Germans by the Russians. That does not address that Russia was a dictatorship.

So we have the nations lining up against Germany are only accusing Germany of the evil of doing to Europeans the same good they are doing to the wogs.

Empires are empires. Slaves are slaves. Doublespeak is doublespeak.