The Glory Of Adolescence

black-american-queen:

I gotta stop this for a minute. Guns would not have stopped the motherfucking Nazis.

Actually many resistance groups - particularly the French and Polish tried to use guns and the Nazis fucked shit up — particularly with the Polish. The Nazis literally raised a ghetto because the Jews had guns in Warsaw.

The Nazi party came to power as the result of a combination of economic suffering, political promises and a restless German people. The whole “Kill the Jews” thing was NOT their leading line. In fact, most Germans voted for the Nazis because of their economic reform plans — which worked. After some time in power the Nazis SLOWLY began to create those policies that lead to the suffering of the Jews. But no one stood up. To stop the Nazis early on the Germans would not have needed guns, they just had to vote them out of office.

But we all know what happened… nationalistic government oversaw by a crazy dude = holocaust.

Now, back to the issue of guns. Lets say the Jews and other groups did arm themselves with guns. The Nazis had tanks. Panzer tanks that rolled over villages like they were nothing. They also had the Luftwaffe (airforce) which raised entire villages. The German military at the beginning of WWII was unstoppable. Their Blitzkrieg strategy fucked everyone in Europe up — even the Russians  (thank god for snow and being a large country because Russia was falling apart with the initial attack - Operation Barbarossa).

You could have armed a whole village and the Nazis would have laughed before just bombing the damn place saving them the trouble of shipping people out to a camp.

I’m not saying victims of the Nazis were a bunch of sheep or weaklings — but going up against an organized government with military training and equipment = death.

You can’t go all Hollywood, being the one rebel with a shot gun that takes down the government - they got better guns and don’t care about using them.

TL;DR - Guns would have been a joke to the Nazis who had Panzer tanks, the Luftwaffe and a powerful Blitzkrieg attack strategy, along with a complacent public that didn’t give a damn about people being systematically killed. Arming the Jews, Rroma, gays and other groups would not have prevented the Holocaust.

It may have actually made it worse. People were put in camps and although millions perished during the holocaust, some survived the camps. If they just bombed entire villages and towns to avoid any sort of violent resistance, there would have been no survivors.
Also that could have easily been spun as propaganda (ex: how Palestine resistance is being equated with the power of the Israeli army). Many other countries who came to the aid of the jews did so because they saw them as defenseless and unable to protect themselves from a government/military that was attacking them for no reason. If they used violent resistance, some groups may have been less likely to see it that way. It may have been seen as caused by fighting on both sides.