I saw this and it made the blood pound in my ears.
In 1942, when the Holocaust began, the Jewish population of Germany was around 200,000 (men, women, children). The size of the German Wehrmacht was over 8 million (not counting police). Don't pretend that a small number of Jews with firearms could have prevented the Holocaust. https://t.co/28ElFY0qun pic.twitter.com/kLQF2POp5J
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) March 22, 2023
According to his bio, he’s a historian and senior fellow with the ADL.
He’s also a fucking moron and a chicken-shit coward.
Yes, in 1942 the Wermacht had roughly eight million troops.
So the fuck what.
By 1942 the Wermacht was getting it’s frozen balls shot off in Russia, sandblasted in North Africa, fighting in France, and was occupying Poland and Czechoslovakia.
It was stretched thin on a three front war.
The Wermacht was not killing Jews.
That job fell on the German Order Police, the Ordnungspolizei.
The Order Police were mainly middle-class, middle-aged men who were not fit for frontline combat.
The Holocaust was mainly carried out by Order Police reservists. Rounding up and shooting unarmed Jews was considered such a low risk job, far from combat that the men sent to do it were not combat troops.
The Order Police battalions that conducted the Holocaust numbered at most 95,000 men.
That’s less than half the Jews in Germany and much less than the 3.3 million Jews in Poland.
So it wouldn’t have been 200,000 Jews versus eight million Wermacht combat troops.
It would have been 3.5 million armed Jews versus 95,000 poorly trained police reservists who just want to get back to their kids at home.
I’m going to quote the Gulag Archipelago:
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Now do the math.
What would have happened if the Jews of Germany and Poland had been armed, and every time the reserve Order Police went to liquidate a Jewish village, five or six were killed?
How many times would that have to happen before these men just fucked off and refused to search homes for Jews?
Could the Holocaust been ground to a halt?
Could it have been slowed down a little?
How many Jewish lives could have been spared?
A good historian should understand this.
The problem is that the ADL has become a Leftist shill organization and would rather push gun control.
Fuck the ADL and fuck this guy.
I’m gonna keep my guns and teach my children how to stage and ambush with intersecting fields of fire.
The Warsaw ghetto was cleared multiple times. Most of the time it only took a short time to accomplish. Once the ghetto was cleared of all the compliant Jews the Germans went in and found the very few who remained.
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The last time the ghetto was cleared a handful of Jews stayed behind, armed. They fought back. They were so untrained and ignorant of firearms they had a watchmaker figure out how to use the firearms and teach them how to use them.
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These very few Jews fighting back stopped the Germans for an extend period of time and required the Germans to commit extra troops to the action.
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This ADL professor is just making noise because he isn’t talking about history or reason, he is talking about his feels.
@Therefore: IITC, the partisans held off the Germans for longer than it took the Army to take Poland. The Germans had to resort to gas to overcome the resistance.
Now all We the People need is 4-5 million more of us to stand up and say enough…and tell these morons we don’t believe you. Liberals lie, they live a lie, embrace a lie, point lie filled fingers at America and lie. Previous history is a great lesson on why liberals want We the People unarmed….
He’s being savaged in the replies w/ multiple people pointing out his math and dates are completely fabricated.
So let’s say he’s right. The Jews couldn’t have stopped it. Hilter would have done things differently had resistance appeared. Whatever. Granted.
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Now. Is it morally better to to quietly into despair and death, or to attempt even a forlorn resistance? Completely apart from holding true to our heritage as apex predators, if one is going to die anyway, taking a few of the oppressors out of the picture at least diminishes their capacity for visiting evil upon others. Is that not a worthy result?
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(Granted this is with the benefit of hindsight; I am in no way blaming the Jews for not having resisted more.)
@it’s just Boris: I will blame the complacency of the Jews. I realize that many just refused to believe the big story. Some probably hoped that if they cooperate now, things might be better later. There just had to be some that recognized the danger. They’re the ones that I blame.
I also blame fellow American “citizens” for the crap that’s being allowed now.
I think Mark Twain said “History does not repeat, but it often rhymes.” (Or something like that).
Idiots like this “professor” are the reason for that.
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Their conclusion, based on simple number without any context or analysis is meaningless. But, a LOT of people will read it, and think… “Yep, he’s right.”
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I would bet every dollar that pResident Burden is kind enough to let keep in my wallet that this individual is an anti-gun, leftists, and votes democrat blindly, no matter how often that party demonstrates their antisemitism. I would say best to ignore him but way too many people will cite his numbers as proof that individual gun rights are meaningless, and the 2nd Amendment is archaic.