Matthew Ellard
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One can certainly see how annoying it must have been. The stubborn refusal of the Germans to kill Jews.
Vitka was to blow up a German train as it made its way east, carrying soldiers and supplies to the Russian front. For two weeks, she had left the ghetto each afternoon and spent the night wandering alone along the train tracks, which passed through the forest seven miles south of Vilna. She was scouting for a place to blow up the train - somewhere far from the ghetto and far from the forest camps where the Jews were used as slave labor. The Nazis met each rebellious act with collective punishment, killing a hundred Jews for one dead German. The underground leaders did not want to give the Germans reason to blame the explosion on Jews. But everywhere Vitka went, she found Jews - draining swamps, breaking rocks, building roads.
Your comment makes no sense. The story is about a partisan fighting the Germans. The Germans "kill a hundred jews for each dead German". How is this an example of the "stubborn refusal of the Germans to kill jews"? The Germans seem quite happy to kill jewish slave labour in this story.
I can assure you that
a. Vievis was connected by the Germans to the standard gauge line by 1943, regardless out many branch lines they had going to local destinations.
b. Even if it wasnt, Jews are unable to get off one train and embark on another.
The "local destination" for the narrow gauge track was to Paneriai. A city on the main line where 100,000 jews and poles were executed in August 1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneriai
How are you going on Treblinka? Can you explain to me why there are bodies there yet?