Would you rather live like a prisoner like he was at both flats and later scrounge for food in the war-torn city to keep alive, or would you fight like some of the others and probably die in dignity? Or probably a third option which is to leave the country instead of putting up there? Though in the end he survived the ordeal and had a successful career, he was extremely lucky not to have died of starvation or illness somewhere along the way.
shareFight like `what` others? There was no Jewish resistance until well into the occupation, when it had become more or less clear what was happening. And there was no option to leave after the very early stages of the German presence... when they chose to stay since doing nothing is always much easier than taking drastic action, and nobody could believe just what the Nazis were ultimately up to.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Ok dude the OP was giving a 'what if ' scenario.No need to get all analytical about it.
Lucca Brasi sleeps with the fishes!!!
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Oh, my bad. Lemme try again... "ROTFLMAO the OP is a moron". That better?
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
No, actually the respondant is a moron or worse yet, a Democrat. You can always spot one. When they disagree with someone, they can't do so in a respectful manner, instead responding with personal insults!
shareWipe off your chin. You`re drooling.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
@joed1667
No, actually the respondant is a moron or worse yet, a Democrat. You can always spot one. When they disagree with someone, they can't do so in a respectful manner, instead responding with personal insults!
Not to the extent the Democrats do. I'll give you an example. Name me one well know Republican celebrity that has called for harm to come to Barack Obama? I can give you a while list of Democrats wishing harm would come to George Bush, when he was in office. I hear Hillary Clinton's comment when Bush was in office that it is patriotic to criticize this or any other administration but when you criticize Obama, you are a racist! What Republicans say is pale in comparison to what comes from the mouths of Democrats. All too often, their responses take the form of a personal attack! Sorry you cannot see it!
shareNot much I could do. Assuming I have no military trainning and do not have a fire arm. If I had a gun I may of shot myself behind the ear.
I may of tried to kill a few Germans first. Again, I would have to have some trainning do be able to do this. I never used a gun before.
Most likey nothing!!!
I would have died with my family, because I would have got on the train with them.
shareI probably would have done the same as him in his position. Most regular people wouldn't be able to do any significant damage to the nazis or be brave enough to directly put their lives on the line.. He had to know he probably wouldn't be able to protect his family if he went anyway (because they'd be separated and he'd already seen people killed indiscriminately)
I do wonder though because it wasn't particularly addressed in the film, how he felt knowing that he'd managed to get away and his family most likely were going to die.. Did he feel any survivors guilt?
The most difficult problem with answering the question is resolving how much an ordinary person would know, and not know, about what is really happening.
A person in Warsaw during the war, if they were to read a 1955 history-book smuggled to them via a time machine, might well decide, "Okay, I will live like a fugitive and walk to Normandy, in France - living off food I can steal along the way (which will not be much, because everyone's food is rationed, now, and one of the reasons for rationing is precisely the objective of limiting anyone's ability to hide without starving, or to feed people who are trying to hide) - and wait for the arrival of the Allied troops in 1944."
A person with no time machine to bring a history book, in a country where the truth about the concentration camps is still pretty much a secret of the Nazi state, might well decide to try to survive where he is, where he knows the language and the society, and where, via his ration-booklet, he can legally obtain his food, instead of trying to steal it from the people around him who already have barely enough.