I’m going to get fried for this answer, but I pray that if push came to shove and I was asked to be complicit in the murder of my fellow Christians, I would have the strength to accept the suffering and my eventual death. Who can answer that ahead of time. I know some of you could, and bless you.
Even the Jewish people complied against one another. I don’t think we can possibly understand what continueous starvation, sleep deprivation, an atmosphere of utter fear and brutality, injury and mental anguish, and this without relief can do to ones mental capability for making decisions. It does become an inner war of utter moment by moment survival....the will to even live.
When you listen to the stories of the survivors...it gives you a better idea of what their mental state was at the time.
One man was able to get a small piece of cake...which he wanted to share with his dying brother. But the person who gave it to him told him if he did that he himself would get killed so he forced the man to eat all of it. When he returned to his brother and shared what had happened, he broke into uncontrollable sobbing because he had eaten the whole piece of cake.... It was the only time he cried while in Auswitzh Death camp.
I cannot relate to that at all. But it does attest to the fact their world surrounded food and protecting themselves from harm. That’s it.
Its a hard call.
Treblinka gassed over 1M with only 70 survivors.
Only two are still living.