I recall talking to a veteran, who had been involved in taking the surrender of a German armoured unit. The Germans were apparently amazed at the instructions to lay down their arms. They had assumed that the Western forces would join them and fight against the "Bolshevists".
That seems to bear out what you wrote Ron. There was a deep seated fear of the Russians. It now appears that the fear of the Russians was largely pumped up by politicians and the big businesses of the time to keep the Cold War going. There were good financial reasons for doing so. After the death of the late, unlamented hood Franz Josef Strauss, it emerged that he had been involved in gun running to the DDR! The arch "anti Communist" certainly understood business. I doubt very much that he was unique.