There were active resistances in most occupied countries including France.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;French_Resistance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;French_Resistance</a><p>However a big difference between occupied populations and Jews is that Germany for the most part left the occupied population alone.
Yes they were still oppressed and in many cases fell into poverty however they weren&#x27;t hunted down by the SS, gathered and then shipped to concentration camps, ghettos, and later to extermination camps.<p>As far as Ghettos go then for the most part it was a &quot;Polish&quot; issue, there weren&#x27;t many Ghettos outside of Poland, while it appears now that the German population knew much more about the treatment of Jews than what previously thought or admitted the German&#x27;s kept Germany clean, and only had labor and work camps within Germany and for the most part France and other occupied countries which sadly provided much better conditions for the most part which enabled the Germans to dismiss the claims of what was happening in Poland and in the eastern front as Jewish and later Allied propaganda.<p>And this is a major issue, while French, Polish, Danish, Dutch and other nationalities had resistances they for the most part were fighting for ideals and their personal freedom. A population in risk of genocide has to literally fight for it&#x27;s life. If Jews the capabilities of supporting a continuous armed resistance the Holocaust could&#x27;ve been avoided (this isn&#x27;t claiming that the end result would&#x27;ve resulted in less deaths) because it would be much less likely that the Germans could&#x27;ve as easily transported as many Jews at that much of an ease during the final solution.<p>The final solution was so unthinkable that even the Jews didn&#x27;t believe it until the news broke out in the final year of the war in Europe, the majority of the Jews were transported from ghettos and work camps and thought that they are just are being put into a new camp, the level of deception that was put into the final solution was truly unbelievable including letting the &quot;red-cross&quot; (still no clear if this was a show or the actual red-cross) visit the Jews in the big Ghettos before transferring them to the death camps to further pacify and calm down the population.<p>So yes arming at risk populations might make a huge difference in the end even if you only consider that difference to be the way they died rather than the pure numbers, but in modern times it&#x27;s also an issue. Tribal genocide (which sadly being going since even before colonial times) cannot be just as easily compared to the Holocaust, if you are the population too much you might still get a Genocide in which the original at risk population isn&#x27;t the victim but now the perpetrator so you end up with constantly fueling an ever shifting conflict.