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It should be noted that both were inevitable, if you read up on what lead to WWII and the rise of Hitler. Spielberg made other great films, and even if that war had not happened, he still would have won a lot of awards for his other movies. He has nothing to be ashamed of.
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Such nonsense! If he had the power, he would give up two silly awards in exchange for the lives of millions of innocent people who suffered horribly.
Anyway, Spielberg is a great talent. He would've still won awards based on a different event.
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You need to factor in that certain type of movies like war-themed or revolutions are more likely to win Oscars for the director like these past winners:
Patton, Deer Hunter, Lawrence of Arabia, From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Reds, Ghandi, Platoon, Born of the Fourth of July, Braveheart, The English Patient, The Hurt Locker, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Spielberg just increased his odds when he made war-themed films. It could've been Vietnam, WW1 or the Civil War.
Spielberg wasn't taken seriously as a director when he started. His movies were too popular and considered fluff by the Academy. His first "serious" work was The Color Purple. There was a lot of buzz that he made this movie to get an Oscar. But black-themed films have never won an Oscar for its director.
It should be noted that the Academy doesn't have good taste in films. They probably only gave him the awards because they liked him, rather than his films. They are notorious for awarding people we've either never heard of, or films that were crap. There are some films that truly do deserve the Oscars they receive, but they are rare.
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