Still, at some point, there was a family gathering prior to Nazi Germany, where all hope hadn't been lost, and someone told their family that they should all buy rifles and join the resistance. That person was right.

No, he was wrong. The right thing to buy was tickets overseas.

You need to deploy soldiers when you'll be hooted down for deploying soldiers. And, you need to be certain you're in the right, while deploying soldiers.

I see a certain... tension between these two sentences.