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Maybe ... If the people who ordered and carried out the bombings of Dresden and Tokyo also get prosecuted, I'd say yes. Those two were actually worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Sorry for the snip ... At the start of WWII antibiotics did not exist. By June 1944 the US had enough penicillin for everyone over and on top of the extremely expensive things like the Atomic Bomb and B-29 ... which weren't yet ready.

"Just following orders" didn't work for Henry Wirz in 1865. He was executed. It also didn't work for most of the people who were executed after being captured, tried, and convicted after WWII for war crimes.

In terms of equipment Wehrmacht never really outmatched the Allies. Their best tended to be fussy, hard to repair, and prone to breakdowns. Sure, it was often better than Allied gear ... when it worked.

The myth of a "noble Whermacht" is much the same as saying that Union abolitionists weren't racist assholes. Sherman flat out said that sandbags were more valueable than colored troops and several northern states had, as a part of their State Constitutions (Oregon and Indiana among them)...