Dylan, I didn't mean they had a sporting chance in terms of superior firepower or collective strength over the Nazis.
I meant
They had a chance at dying with dignity...

It is hard to believe you regard the difference as insignificant -
going down fighting and hopefully taking out a few Nazis in the process,
as opposed to
filing mutely through their system to be stripped of any personal identity, denuded, heads shaved, and murdered in rotating groups.