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[QUOTE=Baggywrinkle;98857]An Inquiry into the General Lack of Violent Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust

by Ian McCollum

Access to Arms

Weapons were an essential element in all violent resistance to the Nazis * to prevail against the Germans, some sort of weaponry was required. The Germans, of course, forbade the Jews to possess weapons under threat of death * but even in the harshest of environments willing fighters were able to acquire weapons.

The type of weaponry used by Jewish fighters varied depending on their environment.

In all of these cases, weapons were an essential element of revolt, and nowhere were the Jews armed to begin with. However, despite the brutal Nazi control of the ghettos and camps, Jewish prisoners were regularly able to acquire the weaponry they needed. The need for weaponry was an obstacle to revolt, but a clearly surmountable one.

Hope for an Easy Solution

For a Jew in the Holocaust, the decision to fight back against the Germans was no easy one * it meant abandoning all hope for German mercy and accepting great immediate personal risk. The desire to place their faith in German humanity was very strong among the Jews, although it did decline as they made their way through the extermination process.


TODAY WHAT WOULD THEY DO IF THEY KNEW THEIR FATE?

They would probably learn how to get out of the hand cuffs that bind them on the trains that are already made and waiting to be mobilized. They would learn how to make rockets and a way to deliver them and explosives they would need to carry. They would probably look for ways to disable the train tracks with mayable a highly corrositive material. They would be ready for them when they come to the door to bag and tag each of them. I'm sure the ones that seem tame would get the chip and the others loaded on a bus or truck to the camps. They would come up with ways to distrack the solders as they come in your area (fack CDD signs and blockades could do it). They would learn how to make weopons that don't require gun power which will be hard to get. Most of all, the ones that see it coming could do all that without involving the ones that still have their eyes closed. And where do they find this stuff out? they would do through the internet before they close it down.