But Jewish and non-Jewish resistance differed considerably with regard to timing. For Jews, armed resistance tended to emerge from hopelessness: as the Germans’ genocidal intentions became clear over the course of 1942, many Jews, especially young people, concluded like Kovner that they had nothing to lose, so they might as well die fighting. For non-Jews, armed resistance came from the opposite impulse. After the German defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa, it became clear that there was something to gain by fighting: a role in the liberation and future of one’s homeland. As a result, Jewish resistance gained momentum earlier, when German power was at its peak. Resistance by non-Jews gathered steam later, as the Germans were retreating.

- War and Genocide (Critical Issues in World and International History) (p. 266)

Reminds me of conversations going on in several trans subreddits about "what if you were forced to detransition"