"History". Nazi and guns fallacious
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MikeTF
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Asbury Park Press, NJ <--- nothing to see, move along.
jimbobborg
Oddball caliber fan
You mean like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto? They held out for a long time, IIRC. Too bad the Soviet tanks were waiting outside Warsaw. Stalin didn't need local heroes around after the war so he waited until they were all killed before moving in.
Worse than that, the opinion piece sets up a silly strawman argument. Of course, once the Nazi war machine was fully implemented, a small localized resistance force wouldn't be that much of a barrier. However, the much more interesting case is could armed resistance earlier have prevented the Nazis from forcing Jews into ghettos and concentration camps. That is a good and very real question for "counter-historical" analysis!
I'm hardly a scholar of Israeli history, but I could argue that the above case of a small force of resistors is EXACTLY what happened during the formation of the state of Israel and its opposition, both internal and external.
JoeR
Pretoria78
URX Fan
You're conflating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943 with the Warsaw Uprising (by elements of the Polish Home Army) in August-October 1944. Your conclusion is correct, though. The Soviets claimed that they had essentially outrun their supply lines during Operation Bagration, and the German retreat westwards had been so rapid, that they couldn't assist the Poles. I don't buy that for a second.
The Soviets fought a low level insurgency in the Baltics until about 1956 against various groups opposed to Soviet rule.
