Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Historians note that there were only around 214,000 German Jews left in the country by 1938, and therefore disarming the Jewish population didn’t have a larger impact on the Nazi’s continued assault on surrounding countries. In fact, suggesting that 214,000 people with personal firearms could successfully defeat the Nazis and all who colluded with them is “mind-bending,” according to the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt.
While those points are well taken, what is often ignored in the discussion are the civilians who refused to give up their firearms, and the lack of impact it created on the Nazi’s ability to kill 6 million Jews and millions of other so-called “enemies of the state.”
There is a pervasive narrative that the Jews went to their deaths like “sheep to slaughter.” This is not only not the case, but muddles up the complex reasons that Jews seemingly willingly went to their deaths at concentration camps.
https://forward.com/community/401885/would-guns-have-saved-jews-from-the-holocaust/
