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“In reality they had no organization of their own at all, not even an information service. If they had had some sort of organization, these people could have been saved by the millions, but instead they were taken completely by surprise.” (Raul Hilberg, history text 1001, past into present pg110) These are the words of Raul Hilberg, a man who believed that the Jews lacked perseverence, because their resistence towards the Nazis’s power was limited, ineffective and the very few that were oriented towards resistence, would bear the racial punishment because of their fear of the Nazi’s, and the lack of faith they had in themselves. The Jews soon began to believe that if they wanted to survive, they must avoid any form of resistence. Hilberg points out that the Jews would do anything to stay alive, even if it meant serving the Germans every need, because they believed that their deliverance would come. One could almost say that Raul Hilberg made it seem like the Jewish community did not want to stand up for themselves, that they were completely oblivious to what was going on around them. The Jewish councils for example, Hilberg makes them seem like they a