The USGI of WW II felt the Arabs were despicable, liars, thieves, dirty, awful, without redeeming feature.
The Italians were liars, thieves, dirty, wonderful, with many redeeming features, but never trusted.
The rural French were sullen, slow, and ungrateful while the Parisians were rapacious, cunning, indiffernet to whether they were cheating Germans or Americans.
The British were brave , resourcefull, quaint, reserved, dull.
The Dutch were regarded simply as wonderful in every way. The most appreciative with the best underground network of the war. Cellars stocked with food and supplies hidden from the Germans.
But the average GI found that the people he liked best, identified with most closely, and enjoyed being with were the Germans. Clean, hard working, disciplined, educated, middle class in their tastes and lifestyles (many noted the Germans were the only people in the world who regarded a flush toilet and soft white toliet paper as a necessity of life like the Americans), the Germans seemed to many soldiers as "just like us."
The GIs noted that the Germans began picking up the rubble and filling in trenches immediately after a battle, and contrasted that with the French where nobody bothered to clean up the mess. And when billeted in the homes of Germans (which was quite often) they usually found hot and cold runing water, electric lights, a proper toilet and paper and coal for the fire.
And these were the views of the men of the 101st Airborne AFTER suffering through the Battle of the Bulge with a very determined and often brutal German army.