soc.veterans

crimenewscenter@gmail.com (Bo Raxo) wrote in
news:q7WdncaqBubRCGfanZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@comcast.com:

> The best protection against tyranny isn't an armed populace - Warsaw
> proved that,

I'm assuming that you're talking about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of
April 1943.

There was no armed populace in Warsaw. There was a handful of
individuals who managed to steal a few guns from the occupying Germans
and hold them off for a time.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/warsawtoc.html

"The fighting organization had been set up, but all the weapons there
were in the ghetto at that time consisted of just one pistol...!"

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com