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The Nazis overran nation states with mobilized armies. A small segment of the populace with guns would have been irrelevant.

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It's one sentence, please read it. I'm talking about the evacuation of jews from Germany, not the general war effort, which was gainst countries with armies.

I know. What I'm saying is that if armies couldn't stop Hitler from marching in, jews with weapons weren't going to stop Hitler from doing what he wanted to them either.

[EDIT: anyway, I actually agree with your main point that a lot of private guns will be useful as a deterrent and in practice against professional armies]

The French Resistance and Warsaw Uprising were not entirely irrelevant, even if they were defeated.

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