I still don't understand why you think Germany cared about her allies.... besides the oil in Ploesti and friendship with Mussolini, Nazi Germany hardly cared about Bulgaria-finland-hungary etc unless they would send all of their troops to the eastern front.
On a previous post you mentioned Germany cared to defend other countries even when their capital fell..... which is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard, its obvious that the units stationed in hungary couldn't reach berlin in time or simply didn't have any means to reach there.
Meat shields is a valid military tactic? So eventhough the Germans used Italians-Romanians as a punching bag you still think they cared?
Also don't confuse defending hungary with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spring_Awakening .
Anyways this is off topic last time i'm replying.
Ehm, Germany sent troops that were on eastern front into Hungary before Soviet Union had started their operation that eventually lead to battle of Berlin. Germans had weakened their defenses in Prussia and Poland becouse they believed Soviets would attack from Hungary, Soviet deception worked.
Absolutely meat shield is valid military tactic. You use your weak soldiers to wear down the enemy, and then unleash your counter attack with your best troops. Classical Roman legion had weakest troops in the front, wearing down the enemy, and should enemy break first line there would be stronger and stronger lines waiting in reserve, fresh and ready for battle. Those are just 2 similarish examples, but every single nation uses meat shields. Naturally nobody calls them meat shields, as that would have bad impact on morale. So called "Forlorn hope"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forlorn_hope is another example of meat shield that is valid military tactic. Or do you think it is better to first send your best infantry to capture enemy machine gun positions, and then unleash your second wave of weakest troops in the army against enemy reinforcements?
I tough it was common knowledge that SS was not only seen as most extreme nazis, but also as elite guard of soldiers. Many people joined SS to fight communism, or becouse it was seen as elite unit, not becouse they were die hard nazis. SS just was military organisation, so of course they will follow orders. One of most important things for German soldier is to follow orders, just look at Wehrmacht. SS was just more "elite" AKA fanatical version of Wehrmacht. Early war SS were hand picked soldiers, of whom some could be called "elite". As war continued, quality of both Wehrmacht and SS declined, but SS was still seen as elite organisation. There were even few (i don`t know how often this is) cases were non-SS units or officers would be "promoted" into SS, for example Cossacks, who certainly did not join SS to fight for Nazi ideology. Just becouse SS followed orders to the letter, does not mean they were loyal nazis any more than Wehrmacht. Many were, like Hitlerjugend division, but not all were. Maybe even most were not.
Things are not black and white. Just becouse you don`t like something does not mean you have to always think worst about it. That will eventually bite you back. If humans could be objective, they would think very differently about lot of historical people/events/nations.
