[Impala64ssa]

"Except they weren't – the German Weapons Act of 1938 deregulated many of the gun laws that had been in place. . They stopped Jews from holding guns but the suggestion that a Jewish resistance with hand guns and rifles could have defeated the German Army and SS is ludicrous."
Then why were the nazis so afraid of the Jews being armed in the first place?

[wastoute]

I read, decades ago, an account of the Warsaw GHetto uprising that laid out the facts I remember imperfectly but the facts were that some dozens of Jews with just a couple handfuls of guns made the Germans hold several divisions of infantry from the line. Think of the force multiplier. Hundreds of people with dozens of guns made the enemy dedicate thousands of troops. Tens of thousands of troops. That could have otherwise been on the Eastern Front. That could have helped Hitler win the war. A few dozen guns.