It's been a long time since I saw the program :)

But I do remember that an economic blockade was discussed by the allies but either not tried or tried for too short a period. As for events on the Continent: yes, it was underground resistance, but not of the armed sort. Again, my memory fades, but I think we all recall the efforts of various non-Jewish families to hide the Jews. This may seem like something that didn't really make a positive difference, but I tend to think that, in the long run, the impact of Anne Frank and those who tried to hide her have been greater than the impact of the attempted assassins of Hitler. I ran across the following passage last night in the letters of Evelyn Waugh, the English mysticist. I'm not in fact a pacifist myself - not having the courage to be - but I thought it was thought-provoking. She wrote it at the beginning of World War Two. "I am sorry we do not agree about Peace. Although I quite agree about the stern element in Our Lord's teaching, the denunciation of Pharisees, etc., etc., still the numerous texts enjoining love of enemies, non-resistance, etc., do seem to qualify this strain in a sense that precludes war. And in fact the early Christians held that they *were* debarred from war, didn't they? Of course Christendom has never had the nerve to apply this teaching without qualification, right up to the point of national martyrdom. When it does, perhaps the Kingdom of God will come." Heather [E-mail]   [Home Page]