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Not the response I was expecting but a welcome one! Because now that I think about it, the German SS had this image of being a formidable force to be reckoned with, but the organisation's overall performance in World War 2 was that they were actually useless. It is only like couple of SS units who did well, while the rest are actually just LARPERs who ran away, surrendered, or got smashed easily by opposing armies. The conscripted ICE would suffer the same fate! Both ICE and SS are only seen as intimidating but that's what they are only good at: intimidation. They would be crushed easily by a more motivated and valiant force who don't fear them!
Honestly, sounds like a win-win to me. Maybe the ICE conscripts can do some militarily useful work. If not, well, at least we solved our ICE problem!