Most of what I wanted to say has already been said.
To think that by playing the Axis forces in a flight simulator is somehow glorifying the "evil Nazi cause" is a little narrow-minded. The horror stories of extermination camps and other war atrocities were committed, as someone posted earlier, by specific divisions created by Hitler to deal with those "problems". If you see SS in any German military designation, you can assume they were pretty determined in a cause that went above the "call of duty" that a regular Wermacht, Panzer, or Luftwaffe service member adhered to.
They were soldiers. And they had specific technology and tactics that would be interesting to explore.
That said, I've played plenty of games, in a campaign mode (I know, the audacity) that involved me controlling SS troops. But none of the games that I played were titled Rounding Up Jews or Expanding an Empire to Establish Racial Superiority. They were games like the original Sturmovik series, Close Combat, etc.
The men and women that were involved in the Axis forces during WWII were people too. Some of them did horrible things. Japan, Italy, Germany, all of them have a list of war crimes. But let's not say that the Allies weren't guilty of some regrettable actions. Both in WWII, Korea, Viet Nam...and...well...I always think it's funny how we frown on aggressor nations when America itself is in another country with no justified reason right now.
A lot of people paint WWII as a black and white conflict. Someone else pointed out that war is never that way. It's many shades of grey, and both sides involve human beings.
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