Infantry Aces has been criticised in the book The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi–Soviet War in American Popular Culture by the historians Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies as ahistorical and misleading, presenting a picture of the German soldiers "without flaws or character defects".

[1] Franz Kurowski (1923 − 2011) was a German author of fiction and non-fiction who is best known for producing apologist, revisionist and semi-fictional works on the history of the World War II.

[2] Kurowski produced numerous accounts featuring the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS, providing laudatory and non-peer reviewed wartime chronicles of military units and highly decorated soldiers.

In their analysis of the book, they write:[9]Kurowski gives the readers an almost heroic version of the German soldier, guiltless of any war crimes, actually incapable of such behavior.

The cover art evokes heroism, determination and might of the German soldier and his weapons.In addition to facts, Kurowski's writing contained fictional stories.

[10] In one of Kurowski's accounts, a medic, Sergeant Schreiber, after turning back yet another "Russian" attack, notices a wounded Soviet soldier just beyond his trench.

Many similar acts of "humanity" are present in the books, amounting to an image of the German fighting men "without flaws or character defects", while in stark contract to the realities of the "war of annihilation" on the Eastern Front.