My grandparents were in the Second World War and they've confirmed as much.

Germans treated the locals with respect. They paid for food and shelter, brought chocolate to children, provided blankets in the winter, etc. It was the Russians who did most of the raping, murdering and looting. Thousands of people were sent to Siberia to die of hunger and exposure. Russian rule was pure cabal misery while Nazi Germany blossomed economically and culturally.

I'm sure no civilian knows what exactly went down back then but it's not what's written in the history books, that's for sure.