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HoneyInBlackCoffee t1_j5tf1i3 wrote

Reply to comment by butteryflame in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888

In 1943 Germany had other issues. Easier to wait them out anyway.

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KamtzaBarKamtza t1_j5thvfd wrote

Throughout the entire war they had "other issues" yet still saw fit to divert resources to annihilate Jews. Because one of the central aims of the German war was the extermination of the Jews

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HoneyInBlackCoffee t1_j5tsiyz wrote

Res to invade the soviet Union are different to Res used to quell uprisings. The guys in Warsaw would have been there anyway

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throwaway97909790 t1_j5u3dyi wrote

300 German soldiers were killed. Not exactly 'waiting them out.'

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raktoe t1_j5u6tiy wrote

That’s the number of resistance fighters that were killed. The German casualty number is 110, with 17 killed, 93 wounded officially, although there is a decent chance it is higher.

I don’t know how to check, but if the majority of their casualties came in the initial ambush, it’s still plausible they waited them out after that.

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CopprRegendt t1_j5vsrlr wrote

No, at the end of the war Germany started to "liquidize" their Jewish prisoners. Meaning kill everyone. At some camps and ghettos, they were killing 10-15,000 people a day.

They weren't even using gas anymore, they'd >!march them to massive graves in the woods and just shoot them with a single bullet. If they weren't dead, they'd still fall into the pit and die by suffocation as the next rounds of prisoners fell on top of them.!<

The parts I put behind a spoiler are nsfl

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