Does anyone think it was ussless to resist aghinst the nazis?

reasons it was ussless and resons that it was worth it thanks stuck on a bit of my history homework. thanks loads!
Does anyone think it was ussless to resist aghinst the nazis?
Totally useless. We fought a war, spend billions of dollars and lost millions of lives, and, after all that, the Nazis STILL won.





We shouldn%26#039;t have wasted our time.





Thank goodness Der Fuher is still around to protect us.
Does anyone think it was ussless to resist aghinst the nazis?
I personally don%26#039;t think it was.


My great grandfather in Italy was a resistor in northern Italy. He fled to the mountains to aid the resistance, my grandfather, his son, took food to these men who refused to fight.





Every little helps... He was one less human shield separating Hitler from the Allies.
Reply:next time use spell checker before posting a question, this one is confusing and difficult to read. there are several incidents and occasions where it was very difficult or useless to resist the germans, notably in poland, italy and in the balkans. however, the french, dutch and the russians had considerable success in helping the war effort against the nazis. eisenhower said that the french resistance that helped with the normandy invasion was the equivalent of five divisions. was it worth it?? ask the people that were in it if it was. i imagine they would say yes it was and would do it again if needed. would you resist if your nation was occupied by a foreign power??? i know i would.
Reply:Resistance is dependent upon resources and in Germany after 1933 it was difficult finding the resources needed to resist. Not so much money but human resources. Quite simply the vast majority of Germans supported the Nazis and thus finding safe havens was next to impossible. Just about anyone might turn you in for %26#039;resisting.%26#039; And Resistance could be anything from failure to snap one%26#039;s right arm into the ear and clearly cheerfully chirping %26quot;Heil, Hitler,%26quot; to listening to %26#039;Jewish Music.%26#039; Beginning in 1934 the Nazis began boycotting Jewish owned stores. Anyone shopping in Jewish stores was subject to abuse or worse. And who ratted family %26amp; friends to the Nazis, friends and family!


Yet ultimately one has to examine one%26#039;s heart, their conscience. Only on that basis is resistence truly worth it. Even if one faces the threat of abuse or worse, one must develope strategies to resist.


A personal example; my mother was fleeing the Nazis, crossing from the Sudetenland through Germany to Holland. One of the Nazis favorite tricks was to change the rules daily. My nearly teenage mother thought she was allowed to take along her bycycle. Suddenly it was illegal. Yet a Nazi guard at the train station rolled his eyes to the skies and ignored my mother%26#039;s bycycle as it was rolled into the baggage car of the train.


Such was the resistence practices by a handful of Germans. Germans who did little things such as taking aside of group of Jews and grandly announcing, %26quot;Your know what I (underline I) am a bit rusty on MY catechisms,%26quot; and taking these Jews aside and goin over with them Catholic worfds which they must learn in order to pretend to be Catholic. And then there were the dutiful German factory workers who put important parts in radio in backwards or broke a connection or fuse. Many a German died on the battlefield due to defective weapons little knowing they were a victim of what was often called passive resistence.





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Reply:It is probably worth reading some of the philosophy of fascism. it is basically a philosophy of war and a philosophy of tyranny of the state over the individual.





Was it useless to resist the Nazis? Not useless if one believed in individual liberty, and the primacy of the individual over the state. But in another way even this is problematic because if one was a citizen of a nation threatened by the Nazis, then usually the war powers of ones own government denied one of the liberty one considered sacrosanct.





Useless if you do not believe in individual liberty. Why fight fascism at all if you support the primacy of the state over the individual?
Reply:No I do not think it was useless to stand against the Nazis. What is your freedom worth to you? Benjamin Franklin said something to the effect of, if people are unwilling to stand-up for their rights and freedoms, then they do not deserve them. That is not the exact quote, but you get the idea, and I cannot find the exact article I read it in right now.
Reply:I see, are you asking about resistance movements within Germany? If so I suggest you watch Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose) or Sophie Scholl.





They both deal with a group of college students who sought to bring to light all the wrongs of the government and start a populist movement against the Nazis. They were caught and brutally executed.





It is an interesting case however of Germans trying to %26#039;come to terms with the past%26#039;. Any instance of resistance to the Nazi regime, however miniscule or futile it may have been, has become a focal point of attention in the post-war era.