With as many of the people knowing full well they were going to the gas chamber I am amazed to this day that they went timidly,,, being a Brit and having a major interest in ww2 in general i have read a lot on the camps, and even if they had no chance of winning i think personally i would rather have gone down fighting than being herded into a gas chamber.
There were few German guards at the chambers since the germans used prisoners to do all the dirty work so they didnt have too, a few determined prisoners could have overpowered the guards and taken thier guns. The fight would eventually gone against the prisoners but like i said, i would rather die fighting than a sheep. With just a few guns the Polish jews drove the Germans nuts in the Warsaw Ghetto with a few rifles and pistols,,it took the germans a long time to defeat the ghetto jewish population. I wonder if the German jews were so ingrained with "the govt. is in control and knows best" that they could not get beyond obeying what ever they were told to do, even at the cost of thier lives.