Ju 88 A-4 "factoids"

[Rainer]

You will not find many references to "Sowjetunion" or "die Sowjets" in contemporary German accounts... for them the enemy in the East was "Russland" or "der Russe", the campaign was called "Russlandfeldzug" and even the book about Operation Barbarossa written by Paul Carell in the 1960s got the subtitle "Der Marsch nach Russland".

Well, a country occupied or annexed by another country belongs to the territory of the latter. Or do you want to tell me that Operation Overlord was actually an attack on France and not on Germany?

[Nick Beale]

You will not find many references to "Sowjetunion" or "die Sowjets" in contemporary German accounts... for them the enemy in the East was "Russland" or "der Russe"

But they also talked about being at war with "England" or "die Engländer" and that wasn't correct either, they were at war with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (not to mention the British Empire, as was).

To be fair, quite a lot of British people then (and some now) would say "England" when they meant the UK as well.