[dfwgator]

It’s easy to say what one would do in that situation with the benefit of hindsight, and from the comfort of their current situation.

I think very few have any idea how they would respond in such a situation. I’ll take a huge grain of salt with anyone who says they would have resisted the Nazis had they been in that situation.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Totally agree, that’s why I thought the question kind of offensively meaningless.

Americans today have utterly no idea what Americans of 70 and 80 years ago went through, with the Depression, the dustbowl, and WW2. Even those events are arguably lightweight compared to having a brutal, invading army take over your country, station themselves anywhere they wish, take whatever they want, and kill whomever they want while people you have known and seen for years are starving to death in the streets.

[freefdny]

There is a reason why Maximillian Kolbe is saint. I am amazed at the heroism of so many people during the Holocaust. Volunteering to die in another person's place at Auschwitz is almost beyond comprehension. I am also not surprised by the story of a pastor who's church happened to be along the railroad tracks for the trains going to Auschwitz. The trains tended to slow up right by his church and the screams and cries for help began to disrupt the service. He instructed the choir to sing louder so they wouldn't have to hear the people trapped on the trains. I tend to think that without divine intervention I too would be a singer in the choir. So I completely agree people have no idea what they would ever do in that situation.