Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1,7, University of Cape Town (Department of History / Jewish Studies Centre), course: The Holocaust, language: English, abstract: This essay is basically a critical discussion of the statement: "e;The common cliche that Jews did not resist their persecutors and simply went 'like sheep to the slaughter' is neither an accurate nor a fair description."e;