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| Jewish families surrender to the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of April 1943. |
There is an obscene suggestion that anti-gun control activists like to make: If the Jews had had guns, they could have prevented the Holocaust.
We know why they utilize these arguments. They are eager to use any argument, no matter how fallacious, that will suit their political purposes.
But the idea that Jews with guns could have made any meaningful resistance is the cruelest, most cynical, most ignorant alternative fact there is. It is an insult to the memory of the 6 million Jews who died in the holocaust.
Yes, there were Jews who rose up in armed resistance against the Nazis. Though the stories of Jewish resistance militias are legendary, and all of these actions were heroic, they were also, alas, failures.
It's not realistic to think that, even if every German Jew was armed, that they would have been able to stand up against an army that would decimate the armies of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Greece — and that would invade the Soviet Union and get within 70 km of Moscow.
And beside that, it was not just the Nazi armies that were arrayed against the Jews. It was the entirety of German society — its universities, its medical profession, its industrialists, its scientists. The Nazis had willing, eager and enthusiastic helpers in central and eastern Europe.
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