information service. If they had had some sort of organization, these people could have

been saved by the millions, but instead they were taken completely by surprise.” (Raul

Hilberg, history text 1001, past into present pg110)

These are the words of Raul Hilberg, a man who believed that the Jews lacked

perseverence, because their resistence towards the Nazis’s power was limited,

ineffective and the very few that were oriented towards resistence, would bear the

racial punishment because of their fear of the Nazi’s, and the lack of faith they had in

themselves. The Jews soon began to believe that if they wanted to survive, they must

Hilberg points out that the Jews would do anything to stay alive, even if it meant serving

the Germans every need, because they believed that their deliverance would come.

One could almost say that Raul Hilberg made it seem like the Jewish community did not

want to stand up for themselves, that they were completely oblivious to what was going

on around them. The Jewish councils for example, Hilberg makes them seem like they

“Though polish Jewry outwardly lay crushed and broken amid the terrible suffering

re being selfish and only trying to save themselves. Like they are fulfilling the Germans

leads us to believe. “Tens of thousands of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe took part

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