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This study explains how in the Vilna ghetto, the Nazis
made successful use of the tactic of "collective responsibility." By
threatening that if a certain resistance leader was not turned over to
them alive, they would annihilate the entire ghetto, they displaced the
responsibility for the extermination of the Jews onto their leader and, if
he were protected, on the Jewish resistance organizations. The resistance
faced an impossible dilemma: give up completely their principle of not
turning over individuals "to save the rest," or use all their efforts
to control their own people, instead of directing their energies against
the Nazis.