From: Don Williams
1) Early on, armed resistance was possible -- Hitler could have been
easily assassinated after his release from prison for
the first (Beer Hall) Putsch and publication of Mein Kampf.
2) To some extent, Jewish armed resistance occurred --but as part of the
Communist resistance. My understanding
is that Communist strength was rising in the 1920s because of the
miserable economic conditions (50% unemployment,
loss of life savings by many due to worthless currency, etc.) and that
the German economic/military elite threw their support to
the Nazis in order to be protected by them, in order to suppress the
Communists, and to deflect popular anger/unrest over the economy.
3) My understanding is that there are no real areas in Germany/Eastern
Europe with suitable terrain for guerrilla fighting
against conventional troops--with the possible exception of parts of
Bavaria and the Pripet Marshes in the Ukraine/Belarus.
In the case of the later, the Jews were betrayed to the Nazis by the
local population with whom the Jews had been on good
terms -- see
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/documents/part3/doc188.html .
The problem of betrayal by non-Jews seeking to gain favor with the
Gestapo was probably a formidable
obstacle to the formation of any Jewish resistance. Russia might have
offered some sanctuary to Jewish communists.
4) Re resistance, industrial sabotage, bombs, cutting of
commuications/power lines/petroleum pipelines/railroads,etc would have been
far more effective than gunfights --although guns would have been needed
for security protection of saboteurs, raids, ambushes,etc.
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