God Emperor Akhenaton
Michael Noire
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Amusingly enough you didn't even answer your own god-damn rhetorical question.
What would have happened had the Jews been armed? They still would have been slaughtered. The difference being they would of taken some Nazis with them and there probably wouldn't have been any left to free from camps by 1945.
No, I answered it pretty clearly, when addressing the few jews who didn't surrender their weapons. As a minority surrounded by people who hated them, they would have had to have first converged and then left as a mobile army to a foreign land. Many would die but more of them would have survived in the long run. Many of them didn't leave though, because they grew too comfortable where they were and they believed things wouldn't get as bad as they became. While keeping their arms meant many were certain to die, you MUST think about the logistics. The majority of captured happened not with tanks, but with armed men. If they had killed some of the people who came to capture, imprison, and execute them, then those dead could not participate in the capture and execution of others. The infrastructure for genocide would have also been disrupted.
The reason the slaughter was so high was because of the lack of resistance. Where there is resistance to genocide, the total casualties are reduced.
The problem is that a citizen cannot hold their ground against a military. And inB4 you quote the Revolution, they had help from France and they had a standing military. A soldier is trained, a citizen rarely is. When you have a jew with a gun and they are being hunted down by a group of secret police who are skilled in ways that almost Rival Jason Bourne, then they are in trouble.
Here's the basic math. If you are a Jew in Nazi Germany and you don't turn into a rat for the Dark Side, you are basically looking at a 100% chance of fatality, secured by armed persons.We know this because that's what happened. Now, if you can shoot back, or shoot them as they arrive, you can buy time for yourself, and for others. Every single Nazi you kill is one less Nazi killing dozens. Even if you get fatally shot, you still have several seconds to shoot as many Nazis as are within Range. Each of those Nazis may have several seconds to in turn, shoot back at you, but you are already dying. The real advantage is within a few seconds several dead Nazis multiplied by each of the subtotals they would have killed are no longer victimized as easily. Suppose a half dozen secret police show up. You kill them, they kill you, but your daughters and wife escape. Some of them don't, and get shot. Now the alternative scenario. You turn in your weapons. You, your wife, and your children are all killed. The total number of Nazis is not reduced. Why this is lost on people must have something to do with the general reduction in IQ. I'm saying that 6 million may have been reduced to something less, perhaps 600,000, perhaps even less. Much of the infrastructure for the death camps was built by Jews. If they resisted, it would have taken longer. of course, we have to wonder whether or not the events of war and invasion would have moved the same way. That we may never know. But what we do know, is historically, people who resist suffer less casualties than people who willingly march to their own deaths.