Anything that might elicit sympathy for the enemy, must simply go unmentioned. Anything that damns the enemy gets embellished, if not outright fictionalized. That is the modus operandi of military minds. It is the modus operandi of racist hate groups. Vain and arrogant people seldom question their own rightness, or spend lots of time in quite reflection, trying to imagine their opponent's perspective.
Freedom represents itself.
You have no right to usurp glorious concepts in the name of a hypocritical country's national vanity. You think that the analogy to Nazis Germany is overstated. Hitler was the greatest imaginable Evil, nothing will ever top it. Germany will bear that shame, forever. We were the Good Guys.