“That’s an interesting question, but hardly analogous to the question at hand. During the Nazi regime, the SS presented a danger to the life of every Jew in Europe. “
You are viewing this with 20/20 hindsight of history. Until AFTER the Allied Forces conquered the Concentration Camps, people denied they were anything but grand! Even had a really nice one in Switzerland that Hitler would have a Nazi soldier film them (jews) all healthy and playing ball. Like they were just living it up in the sunshine. Of course that was a minute amount of people, the rest were being murdered. I suggest you watch the documentary “Steal a pencil for me”, that will give you an idea.
And even AFTER the liberation, our Generals were so terrified that people would NOT BELIEVE him at how horrific the camps were, and how staggering the deaths were, that he made the soldiers film them burying the thousands and thousands of dead that was just laying around.
So, I’m sorry, but I don’t believe you when you say that you would have killed an SS soldier. You would have been just like all the Germans who told themselves that Hitler wouldn’t, Hitler COULDN’T be THAT bad!
Yes, but that was the "good germans". The Jews, if they had a tradition of resistance, which they did not then have, would have seen it a bit differently. The Jews, for the most part, had no guns, we do.