...precisely the reason why Jews in Germany were sheep in the hands of Nazis...! because the Jewish psychology of "victim" complied and supported the Nazi treatment...
100% wrong. My grandparents and other relatives did not "support the Nazi treatment". They did not consider themselves to be victims when Hitler was appointed Chancellor; Jews had had full civil rights in Germany for generations. So they thought that they could survive the Nazis because Germany was the most civilized country in Europe and they never imagined - until too late - that Germans would allow the Nazis to do what they did.
In the meantime they had been immobilized, their wealth frozen or seized, the police made unfriendly, the courts undermined, and of course they themselves had been disarmed and removed from any governing functions. My grandparents managed to send their young kids out. Older kids tried emigrating to other countries only to be refused, returned forcefully to Germany, or caught up in the Nazi conquest later. Powerless relatives continued to survive the first years of the war - the Holocaust aimed at non-German Jews first, German Jews last, and they remained in ignorance of the truth under wartime secrecy. Then their neighbors were disappearing, one by one, slowly, where exactly they did not know, but the Nazis portrayed the
Theresienstadt "camp-ghetto" to the Red Cross as an example of Jewish resettlement so they presumed that comparatively benign fate was what was in store for them.
It was all a hoax, from the propaganda at home straight to the phony showerheads of the gas chambers. Even once they reached the camps, some hope remained, people hoping day-to-day that they would be spared the Grim Reaper, even as inadequate clothing, shelter, rations, and control over every movement underscored that they were slaves to be eliminated immediately at the slightest disobedience.
People outside did eventually realize something gruesome was happening. In the Warsaw Ghetto uprising the Jews - armed with pistols supplied by the Polish Underground - desperately resisted the Nazi regime. But for the Jews of Germany itself they could do nothing.
