Would you be in the resistance?

[HannerBananners]

If I had lived back then, I'd definately be in the resistance, or at least help some people. Would you all do the same? Also, what are your favorite Holocaust movies? I like The Pianist and Uprising. I really didn't like The Grey Zone, it was very very depressing, I guess I didn't hate it, but it wasn't a pleasant movie to watch. Neither was Anne Frank: The Whole Story.

[Wise1]

I would definately have taken the opportunity to be in a resistance movement, as to the films I dont really in honesty watch films of the holocaust really, the only one I watched was Schindlers list and only because someone bought me it.

I watch a lot of documentries on the subject and I am currently working my way through Shoah which I am finding quite a difficult one from the fact that its quite emotional and really hits striaght to the heart of the whoe subject.

[HannerBananners]

I watch a lot of documentaries also. I was going to rent Shoah. Have you seen Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport? It was also difficult to watch. There is a DVD that just came out called "Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State" I am renting that now. It's a 2 disc series.

[morse1001]

Originally Posted by HannerBananners

If I had lived back then, I'd definately be in the resistance, or at least help some people. Would you all do the same? Also, what are your favorite Holocaust movies? I like The Pianist and Uprising. I really didn't like The Grey Zone, it was very very depressing, I guess I didn't hate it, but it wasn't a pleasant movie to watch. Neither was Anne Frank: The Whole Story.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soliders for action, the prospect of fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

Vegetius 4th century AD

[HannerBananners]

Are you trying to say I'm too young? Believe it or not, I am not a niave child. And I'm certainly not looking for action or fun. I was merely asking a hypothetical question on whether or not someone might be in the resistance.

[Marina]

Originally Posted by HannerBananners

Are you trying to say I'm too young? Believe it or not, I am not a niave child. And I'm certainly not looking for action or fun. I was merely asking a hypothetical question on whether or not someone might be in the resistance.

It is a question that must remain hypothetical. I think people like to think they would have had the courage to be in the resistance, but in reality, your life, or the lives of your family might well have been on the line. The 'Sorrow And The Pity', the documentary about life under the occupation, made that point very clearly. People with children and dependants often tended to keep their heads down and make the best of things. And resistance activity wasn't always popular because it could bring down terrible reprisals on whole communities. That didn't make people pro-Nazi - it just made them human beings living under a reign of terror.

[HannerBananners]

Originally Posted by Marina

It is a question that must remain hypothetical. I think people like to think they would have had the courage to be in the resistance, but in reality, your life, or the lives of your family might well have been on the line. The 'Sorrow And The Pity', the documentary about life under the occupation, made that point very clearly. People with children and dependants often tended to keep their heads down and make the best of things. And resistance activity wasn't always popular because it could bring down terrible reprisals on whole communities. That didn't make people pro-Nazi - it just made them human beings living under a reign of terror.

Oh, I understand what you mean. Thank you.