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You asked ” Did the Rabbonim do that? Did they declare that no one should escape?”
The answer is Yes many Rabbonim did declare that no one should escape. The point isn’t really if they can be blamed for making this mistake (I don’t believe anyone sitting here can really judge anyone living in Europe then) as much as that clearly a mistake was made. The fact that other secular leaders didn’t make this mistake and did advise people to leave would seem to support those that say you shouldn’t take the advise of a Gadol over a secular person just because it was said by Gadol who has “Daas Torah”. This raises the question of what does the term Daas Torah even mean? If both opinions are equally valid what’s the Daas Torah do?
Your comparisons to yirmyahu etc is flawed the Rabbonim didn’t say “a huge percentage of European Jews will die” they said for the most part “don’t worry about it”