I read that the Jews requested help from the Nazis to protect them from the Hungarians during the battle of Budapest, can you provide more information?

by ytruhg

I was reading a post on Quora about the battle of Budapest. The writer make says: "At the same time there were a large number of Jews imprisoned in Budapest and used as slave labor. Much is said about the brutality of the Germans, but the Hungarians were worse. At one point, the leader of the Jewish prisoners actually appealed to the Germans for relief from the Hungarians. "

Are you please able to provide more information about the jews appealing to Germans for help?

Thank you

gingerkid1234

I've never heard of this, and a cursory google search didn't turn up anything. The lack of citation means it's probably a half-remembered anecdote, because it doesn't really make sense. By the time Budapest was being fought over, the Nazis had already murdered most Hungarian Jews, a fact which probably would've been known to Jews by this time. I'm not sure what hypothetical help the Nazis would've given them.

Also, at this point the Hungarian government was essentially a Nazi puppet, so the implied argument that Hungarians as a group were worse than the Nazis doesn't make sense when the Hungarians effectively were selected by the Nazis.

The claim that Hungarian brutality was actually worse than the Nazis is pretty clearly made-up--I don't see how it's possible to do worse than murder 2/3 of Hungarian Jews, and enslave and torture many of those who survived.