Gun control in the Third Reich : disarming the Jews and "enemies of the state" / Stephen P. Halbrook.

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Presents the history of how the Nazi regime used laws restricting firearms ownership to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power which rendered political opponents defenseless.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halbrook, Stephen P.
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : The Independent Institute, [2013]
Subjects:
Firearms > Law and legislation > Germany > History > 20th century.
Gun control > Germany > History > 20th century.
Jews > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Physical Description:xxiv, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Insurrection and repression
  • The 1928 law on firearms
  • Keeping firearm registrations out of the wrong hands?
  • The Nazi seizure of power
  • Disarming the politically unreliable : the case of Brandenburg
  • Defining enemies of the state
  • From the night of the long knives to the Nurnberg laws
  • The Gestapo
  • Hitler's gun control act
  • October prelude : arresting Jewish firearm owners
  • Goebbels orchestrates a pogrom
  • Jewish victims speak
  • Conclusion : whither the German resistance, whither the holocaust?