Akuperma, purely as a hediot I challenge your statement: “If they were targetting Jews in order to force Jews to go off the derekh – then one is required to die rather than do even the most minor averah.” This sounds like the din of sha’at shemad, which goes into effect — so I learned — only if the Torah as such or the entirety of Klal Yisrael is under lethal attack. Even in the Holocaust, I recall no consensus that such was the case, it being argued that a Jewish population of millions (in the U.S.) was not threatened.
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