Another thread which has enough misinformation to make me sad. You are suffering from Victors Justice Syndrome. The Wehrmacht were the German Armed Forces, simple soldiers, sailors & Airmen.
Whilst the regime that controlled their actions was inhernantly wrong, their actions as soldiers on the Western Front was no better or worse than than the Allied soldiers. WWII is something I've studied going on 10 years and I've read enough from both sides of the fence to make REASONABLE assessment. Any Allied soldier who fought on the Western Front would say exactly the same as I am saying right now, I've seen interviews & spoke to a few. The Eastern Front is a different matter altogether. As neither German nor Russia were signatories or the Geneva Convention, neither side worried too much about crimes. There were massacres on a major level by both & by the end the Germans were fighting for their lives as the Soviets had been in 1941/42. Around 2,8 million Soviet POWs died in captivity and as for German soldiers in Soviet captiovity, 8 out of 10 died in the Gulags. Western Allied Soldiers in camps faired a whole lot better & were, by in large, treated in line with the rules laid out at Geneva.
There were several War Crimes committed by Wehrmacht units, this is true, likewise there were several committed by the Allies...but we don't hear so much of them. The bombing of Dresden for example, whilst not 'officially' classed as a War Crime, it is classed by many as a major sore point, circa 35,000 people were killed for no military purpose, the only factories it had produced china, cups & saucers & cigarettes. More importantly, there were no military instilations at all. Another major one happened in Italy when the US rounded around 70 Italian & German soldiers in a cave & killed them.
I am not trying to avoid the crimes on the German side whatsoever, they were there & they were not ignored, history has recorded them for all to see & a google will fill you in.
It's needed to be remembered the Wehrmacht were not Nazi's or SS, it was illegal for a German soldier to join either until late in the war, even then most never. Most ordinary German's were lied to, dragged in & spat out.
In regards to the International Military Tribunials, I don't believe for one second that they were 'fair'. This is not to say the German's on 'got off lightly', a lot were executed & rightly so, but a large number weren't for on reason, they were useful to have around, the scientists, engineers, military advisors etc, both the West & East kept these men, who deserved their due punishment, to progress their OWN mascinations.
There were several instances where the IMT's sentences were too harsh. One example is Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff to OKW (Armed Forces High Command) who's sentence of death was posthumously pardoned when the West broke from the USSR.
While I wholeheartedly agree that the Nazi regime was an evil organisation to it's very core & several weak or twisted minded Wehrmacht officers were drawn in, I won't sit here & listen to semi-educated diatribes about how millions of normal Wehrmacht soldiers and Officers should have got harsher sentences from the same nations that kept the brains behind the scenes alive to further their own world controling gains.