Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Forgotten History: Violent Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust" video.
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@mortarriding3913 Wasn't the point of the comment entirely. The point of the argument was "The fact that violence can save lives is often ignored or forgotten." in which the original comment quoted. I made an argument against it. It utterly has nothing to do with who shot first, or who was the most dastardly. In fact how the Allies handled the occupation of Germany and Japan are prime examples on how a lack of 'violence' saved lives, not the other way around, while the German occupation of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus in which were very violent only caused violence in response, that violence didn't save lives, but only encouraged further bloodshed. It was a vicious cycle on the Eastern Front.
I guess i can put it bluntly. How many towns, villages were raised to the ground in response to Partisan warfare on the Eastern Front? How many thousands were rounded up and shot in attempts to deny Partisans' access to intelligence, food, and shelter? How many died as a result of these "Violent" agitators? They had reason to fight, but in the end it's easily argued they did nothing but add considerably more fuel to the fire, and more often than not, it wasn't the Partisans or the Germans they fought that paid the price and were burned.
That being said. It's also often not told that there were Communist Partisans, Pro German Partisans, Pro Democratic Partisans as well, and they often didn't work together, nor care for eachother. In Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and much of the Balkans these groups warred with each other about as much they did with the Germans. That same Israeli General I mentioned, whom i wish I could remember his name ended up leaving the Partisan group he was in a Communist one primarily because they didn't care a lick about Poland's Independence. Also I do recall one of the concentration camps was also attacked by Partisans, not to save the inmates but they didn't want the Jews released late in the war, ie an antisemitic band of partisans. Similar to the Frei Korps of Germany post WWI, partisans were little better than armed thugs, who cared about their own personal political beliefs and agendas often more than the nations they claimed to be fighting for.
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