Keep in mind you asked a hypothetical question, and yet you keep taking my answer as a literal thing that happened. I even quoted it above in a screenshot above.
My point was that the Germans would have no problem killing 1000 Jews in exchange for the death of a single German soldier. When a German gets killed, a whole neighborhood burns for it, women and children included. Consider it a metaphor. For every GErman killed by a Jew, and entire town would pay for it with their lives. Now do you understand?
You asked how the Jews would have fared if armed, right? The Germans were killing machines, and they didn;t consider the Jews humans. What would have happened if all the Jews in a certain town resisted, and somehow all had automatic weapons and hand grenades and the like? Well, the Germans would likely barricade the entire town, stop all entry and exit, destroy all food sources, then kill every living thing in the town, man, woman and child in the town, by mortar, gunfire, burning literally everything, etc. Look what happened to the well-armed Jewish resistance in Warsaw. 700+ fighters, held off the Germans for a month. They had explosives, all manner of guns, everything you could hope for a citizen army to have and more. The Germans Barricaded the town, starved the people, then burned the entire thing down, block by block, burning thousands and thousands of people alive. Had the same situation occurred in Germany in the late 30's, the outcome would have been the same. Well over 10K Jews died, to less than 20 German soldiers. All the rest of the living were sent to the death or labor camps.
Or you could look at the obvious and see that the Germans rolled over entire armies for a few years, so a well-armed Jewish resistance had 0 chance. Know why guerrilla warfare didn't work against the Germans? Because when you don;t care if you kill and destroy everything in front of you, there's really no place to hide.
The only option for a German Jew was to get out before they could no longer leave. Even if you wanted to fight, you still had to get the fuck out of Germany and hope to align with allies in other countries.
Originally Posted by
donkdowndonedied
I already acknowledged that the weapons would likely have cost too much, but that isn't even an option with gun control. You are repeating to me what I said to you earlier.
You mentioned cost in relation to the Mexican border stuff, the way you wrote it. I mentioned it specifically about the pre-ww2 time period. Just pointing out the reality of the situation at the time, sorry if I wasted 10 seconds of your time "repeating" a point you already made. In the hypothetical situation where law wasn;t an issue, money would have been. Seems we agree on this.
Originally Posted by
donkdowndonedied
Yes, Germans massacred poorly armed Jews. Would having been armed helped? I'd say yes, but they didn't have hindsight like we do. shrug
Literally all the evidence we have says no. At best, a few more Germans would have died in the process. ENTIRE COUNTRIES were German speedbumps on the way to more killing. No, no amount of possible arms were going to help.
Originally Posted by
donkdowndonedied
Regardless my whole point was to poke at Druff by playing with identities. Didn't mean for you to take the bait.
WAs good bait. I couldn't resist.
I try not to even read the political threads on this board, but I had fat fingers last night and ended up here.