If I just go from memory of distant reading you have maybe the picture of Italian soldiers surrendering and only a few good It. Generals. But I think the Greece forces utterly refused to surrender to the Italians but only to the Germans.
And there is a much more nasty picture of fascist Italian officers/soldiers kicking/beating and killing Jugoslav prisoners. Not sure if it was POWs, partisans or civilians in retaliation. They were very hated and contempted by Jugoslav civil community being coward underhand and bullies having overhand. The It. fascists were no nice people, not the cheerful pasta eating good natured Italian paisante.
Into axis troops. The Hungarians was no bad guys or...? About partisan fighting in the region of Army Group Center area July 1943 in the jurisdiction of 221st's Security Division there was a Hungarian led op called "Csobo". The German order was to determine the "reliability" of villages by making quota level requisitions BUT all villages were to be spared. The order read: "The division requests that the Hungarian troops refrain from any evacuation, destruction of villages, or reprisal action in the course of the operations. ...general burning of villages and measures directed against the population are strictly forbidden by ordeer of army group commander"
The Hungarians ignored this instruction, slaughtered 900 people during the op itself, and then complained about the 221st's excessive leniency to Army Group Center!
Maybe the Russians rememered this and other actions when rolling in the pusta plains 1944?
Regards/Roland
