can someone explain me why jews during the holocaust didnt revolt against German power?

Question

i just want to understand it i am not criticizing...But why if they were 6 milion people and faced to a horrible fate they didnt try to fight back???

Answer 1

because its a propaganda to make palestinians pay the price of german crims against jews

Answer 2

First it must be said that there were revolts, most notably in the Warsaw Ghetto and at Sobobor Concentration Camp. But you are right in seeing that they largely did not resist. The reason I think is because it happened incrementally over a period of years. At first it was anti-Semitic speeches and essays, then acts of vandalism, then sanctions. European Jews at that time had long been accustomed to such treatment and had become tolerant of it. Then the actions of the Nazis became worse, property seizures were followed by forced relocation which many Jews thought were just temporary. As they were taken to the train depots they had no idea what was in story for them on the trains and in the camps. Once at their destination, it was forced labor at first culminating in the final solution. Once there, death or harsh treatment was the only choice. Any infraction resulted not only in an individuals death but also the deaths of all those standing near them. The lesson for all of us is that evil can sneak up on you one small lie, one small incivility at a time. The lesson for the Jews is that all that is necessary for a Holocaust to happen is for good Jews to do nothing. Today there is not a Jew alive anywhere on the planet who doesn't know what the phrase 'never again' means.

Answer 3

the Jews were not just Jews they were German Jews, french Jews, Latvian, polish, Hungarian and Ukrainian Jews. they were small groups in a larger society. at first they would not believe the stories of what the Nazis and their allies were doing. very often these people were their friends and neighbours, would you believe it? realisation came too late, there was no real organised resistance, because contrary to the beliefs of ignorant bigots there is no clandestine international organisation of jewery, if there was there would have been resistance. imagine this, all of the people you trust, the country you've grown up in and love, turns on you with spiteful venom. slowly step by step you are stripped of all your rights and then your livlihood and then your property and then they burn your church, they beat you and spit on you. you are hunted and dispised and you live in fear.once you were in the camps you were so brutalised and dehumanised that only your individual survival really mattered. you lived only for that day, how could you fight against the guns, the wire, the dogs. this terror did not come upon the jews roaring like a lion, it came slowly in the dark like leeches slowly sucking the humanity out of you. would you be any different?many jews especially in the ukraine and russia did form partizan groups. the palmach, jewish special forces also fought for the british in north africa until rommel's defeat. many jews fought bravely for the US, British and allies during the war. it was not a racial thing that made the jews go passively, they were just people like you who wanted to protect their families, who trusted their government, who could not believe that people they knew could be so inhuman. by the time they found out the truth it was far too late.

Answer 4

this was a systematic genocide. First they were deprived of there business then their homes, the stronger members of the community were culled out of the population0n to prevent an uprising. The camps were kept as a secret until late in the war. The people were isolated in Ghettos, and were given less then 500 calories a day in food. The people once weakened were herded into trains to a "re-education camp" they still had no idea what was to be their fate. They were further separated from their belongings their families to further diminish their ability to form an uprising, They were herded into showers and gassed to death by the Nazis. The bodies were burned even before the rest of the family )the ones deemed fit enough for slave labor) ever where aware of what had happened.

Now please put on some pants your freaking me out.

Answer 5

They did fight back: see the Warsaw Ghetto, the revolt at Sobibor and the blowing up of the gas chambers at Auschwitz by the sonderkommando, and Jewish participation in the Resistance. Why did so many go to their deaths? It was inconceivable that such barbarous evil could happen in C2Oth Europe. Even today people, despite the films, books etc., do not realise the extent of the sheer efficiency of the Nazi killing machine.

Answer 6

Jews by nature are not a violent people unless pushed they are more intellectual,enterprenaral and peace loving.The word used often shalom means peace.
During the holocaust the germans had much power and military might,weapons ect. These people were mostly civilians and many of them actually did fight back and many tryed to flee the political turmoil.

Answer 7

They did try to fight back but they were scattered throughout Germany and Poland. Think about it.....if a bunch of army guys blasted through your door right now and rounded up your family, took everything you owned, your IDs, your money and maybe just for fun shot your 2 year old in the face because you were resiting - what would you do? Um, probably what they did - walk around in a daze of disbelief that their government would actually do this. Keep in mind that no one told them they were going to die. They were told they were going to be "relocated." Even when they were going to actually be killed, they believed they were going to take a shower. It is easy to look back on history and say "Oh, they should have known." But there is no way they could have.

Answer 8

This question reminds me of a press conference that I saw when Michael Gorbachof first came to power in the latter days of the Soviet Union. He had a bunch of western journalists all gathered around him and they were firing questions at him left and right, until finally some one asked from far in the back, "Mr Gorbachof, when Joseph Stalin was sending millions of your fellow Russians to their deaths in the concentration camps, where were you and what if anything did you do to stop this genocide?" And Mr. Gorbachof's reply was: "WHO SAID THAT? WHO SAID THAT? I WANT TO KNOW WHO SAID THAT!!!" And then immediately there was utter and complete silence in the gathering. You could have heard a pin drop. And then, after a few more very uncomfortable seconds, Mr Gorbachof smiled and said, "You asked me where I was during that difficult time? That is where I was. That is where I was."

Answer 9

for one some did revolt against them the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. plus they separated the Jews women went to one camp while men went to others and there were many camps spread out all over the place. so they weren't really able to unite and plus the Nazis would kill them for kicking the wrong stone in the yard so they forever lived in fear of this aggod movie to watch a

Answer 10

There were revolts, here are some links:

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/wgupris.htm
http://yad-vashem.org.il/about_yad/magazine/data6/Sobibor.html
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1998-no-frames/treblinka-uprising.htm

But Jews didn't have any chances then to defend themselves. Nazi Germany was a highly organized, well armed power and you know these six millions weren't organized, they were civilians deported from many different countries, and killed at different places, many of them were women and children and old people, they mostly didn't have any weapons... they simply did not have any chance.

Answer 11

I think violence is very much looked down upon in the Jewish faith, even if in self-defense.

But you're right... I wish they had fought somehow. I think things started out slowly... then things seemed to happen all at once that it took them all by surprise. And those that DID fight back were gunned down immediately.