Glenn E. Meyer
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The Yugoslav resistance was significant as was partisan activity in Russia.
The Warsaw ghetto resistance was not by an armed populace but by a few weakly armed but brave folks.
That is quite different from hundreds of thousand of potentially armed folks.
Manta, you cannot prove your counterfactual in any sense. Historical research indicates that genocides do not happen to populations that can defend themselves. You might get civil wars which is a different story.
The idea of the armed populace is to short circuit the idea of an easy round up and genocide. If the Germans thought that they would have to fight a significant civil war in their own territory before invading France and Russia - that would probably impact planning. You have no idea how that would have played out.
The Warsaw ghetto resistance was not by an armed populace but by a few weakly armed but brave folks.
That is quite different from hundreds of thousand of potentially armed folks.
Manta, you cannot prove your counterfactual in any sense. Historical research indicates that genocides do not happen to populations that can defend themselves. You might get civil wars which is a different story.
The idea of the armed populace is to short circuit the idea of an easy round up and genocide. If the Germans thought that they would have to fight a significant civil war in their own territory before invading France and Russia - that would probably impact planning. You have no idea how that would have played out.