Rage Against The Nazi Machine Analysis

Rage Against the Nazi Machine
Societal norms dictate that violence is wrong, but sometimes it might just be right. For Jewish people living in Europe during the Holocaust, this was the case and engaging in violence against those who wished them harm often meant the difference between living to see the next day or not. During the early 20th century from about 1939 to 1945, the Nazis carried out their draconian orders by systematically killing off much of the Jewish population from Denmark to Romania in their quest to complete the so-called “Final Solution” and rid the world of Jews. But they only got so far. As Jews began to rise up and battle this horrific force, they began to fashion different forms of defiance. The results were twofold: an armed and an unarmed resistance, one violent and one not, but both of which were designed to preserve the Jewish faith, its
Education seemed civil and peaceful, but turned rather deadly, as Jews were dying, as they were attempting to educate others and the youth. Jews who ran the 60,000-volume underground library in the Theresienstadt ghetto faced peril, while trying to maintain their secrecy. Education and recordkeeping proved to be very difficult, as this was information the Jews were willing to die for to protect. The other aspect of combined resistance was the organization of the resistance movements. Often the groups were formed in utter secrecy, to prevent anyone knowing of what they were planning, just in case they were taken capture by the Nazis. Groups such as the Solidarite, a Jewish Communist group carried out many attacks on Nazi personnel in Paris, as many other Jews joined other groups, such as the larger French resistance. These resistance groups paved the way for the preservation of modern Jewish principles, society, and religious aspects, without armed and unarmed resistance, the Jewish nation we know today, may not have