According to the author it&#x27;s better to die on your feet and take out some Nazis than die as a slave helping the Nazis. Also, according to the author, the Nazis might have thought twice about Poland if there were uprisings in more than just Warsaw.<p>Sometimes these uprisings do actually save the people involved. It wouldn&#x27;t have saved the Jews, but it did save about half of the Tutsis.<p>Closer to home, it&#x27;s also worth reading the book &quot;We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement&quot;. tl;dr; violent terrorists were regularly attacking black Americans, American Indians and insufficiently loyal white people, and armed resistance put a big dent in it. (Note that law enforcement generally sided with the terrorists.)<p>See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Hayes_Pond" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Hayes_Pond</a>