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In 1938 Gandhi proclaimed that non-violent resistance by Jews in Germany (his method of "satyagraha") would "in the twinkling of an eye" turn the situation around. NAIVE does not begin to describe the preposterous fatuous Panglossism of Gandhi in the face of Hitler's evil. Yes, non-violent resistance can accomplish great things when the opponents have robust conscience to be appealed to. But against the most ruthless evil-doers such as Hitler, non-violence is no panacea.

[Gandhi in 1938] "But the Jews of Germany can offer satyagraha under infinitely better auspices than the Indians of South Africa. The Jews are a compact, homogeneous community in Germany. They are far more gifted than the Indians of South Africa. And they have organised world opinion behind them. I am convinced that if someone with courage and vision can arise among them to lead them in non-violent action, the winter of their despair can in the twinkling of an eye be turned into the summer of hope. And what has today become a degrading man-hunt can be turned into a calm and determined stand offered by unarmed men and women possessing the strength of suffering given to them by Jehovah. It will be then a truly religious resistance offered against the godless fury of dehumanised man. The German Jews will score a lasting victory over the German gentiles in the sense that they will have converted the latter to an appreciation of human dignity. They will have rendered service to fellow-Germans and proved their title to be the real Germans as against those who are today dragging, however unknowingly, the German name into the mire."