interesting to see how if the barbs are evenly distributed, it's amusing for its droll snideness, then when you omit one nation, propaganda emerges.

Not quite how I see it?  What I found was that the original Brit-bit, being Brit-authored, was an affectionately droll homage to national stiff-upper-lip understatement in the face of carnage.

However - in phase 2 - some anon. "re-editor" appended to this a spate of viciously hostile Freedom-Fry-type projections of WW2 events into a series of "national stereotypes" for continental Europeans, none of which have anything whatsoever to do with the normally-perceived national characteristics/quirks of the peoples in question. Content can be summed up as "the French are cowardly treacherous turncoats", "the Italians are noisily theatrical treacherous turncoats", "the Germans are hyper-militaristic tinker toys who can't fight" ... cute, eh? To which some bright spark then appended a schoolboy reminiscence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada as representative of Spain's past-present-future essence ...None of which is on the same level - or in the same spirit - as the rather amusing "keep a stiff upper lip and have a nice cup of tea" national-stereotype treatment reserved for the Brits.  

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami