Holocaust Resistance
The Prisoner's Dilemma in the Classroom

You are a non-Jewish Dane in Nazi-occupied Denmark. The Nazis have ordered the roundup and deportation of all Jewish Danes to concentration and death camps. You can obey orders to assist in this roundup by identifying Jews you know and identifying other Danes who might be hiding them, or you can hide Jews yourself and attempt to smuggle them to the nearest safety, in Sweden. Your Pair Member represents other non-Jewish Danes with the same choice.

• If you obey orders, and the others obey orders, you each will be unharmed, but all Jews you know of among colleagues, friends or family will be deported to likely death.
  
  
• If you help Jews hide and escape, and the others help also, your chances of getting the Jews to safety are excellent, and your chances of being caught are very small, and you will have a clear conscience.
  
  
• If you obey orders, and others resist the orders, you might be rewarded by the Nazis, and you will be not only unharmed but probably really safe, but the others you report on -- Jewish and non-Jewish Danes -- will be arrested and killed.
  
  
• If you resist the orders, and others obey them, they might be rewarded by the Nazis, and will be not only unharmed but probably really safe, but you will be arrested and killed.
  
  
• Note that
  "Safe/Rewarded" > "Success & Clear Conscience" > "Unharmed" > "Killed"
  and that
  "Success & Clear Conscience" > average of "Safe/Rewarded" and "Killed"