It is popularly thought that most Jews went to their deaths 'as sheep to the slaughter'. This is a misconception. What is surprising, as Bauer (1982) notes, is not how little resistance there was but rather, given the conditions that the Jews of Eastern Europe endured, how much.
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1. Johnson, 508.
2 ibid.
3 Gilbert, 426-7
4 Altschuler, 192
5 See, e.g. Bayer, 1982; Gilbert, 1986
6 Grobman, 1990
7 See Gutman, 1982
8 Although some historical accounts report that 300 Germans were killed and 1,00 wounded; and other 17 dead and 110 casualties; the actual figure is unknown.
9 p. 509, note 198.
10 Suhl, 1975
11 Gilbert, 1986; Suhl, 1975
12 Another source has the number as 70 inmates that escaped to freedom with 1,500 being killed
13 Another source cites 11.
14 for a partial working bibliography see ?
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/lerman/bibliography/pdf
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