How Hitler Registered The Guns Of Jews Before Confiscating Them

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"Stephen Halbrook'southward meticulous inquiry in Gun Control in the 3rd Reich sheds new and revealing light on the consolidation of Nazi power and the prosecution of the Holocaust. Everyone, including advocates of gun controls, should detect this pioneering and thought-provoking book essential reading."
—James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, New York Academy; author, Can Gun Control Piece of work?

" Gun Control in the 3rd Reich , Stephen Halbrook's excellent history of gun control in Frg, shows that, motives even so, removing weapons from the general population always disarms society vis a vis its worst elements. In Germany the authorities tried to bargain with the Nazi and Communist mobs that were shaking society's foundations indirectly, past disarming ordinary people. But their cowardice ended up delivering a helpless population to the Nazis' tender mercies. Halbrook's richly documented history leads Americans to enquire why those among us who decry violence in our club choose to endeavour tightening the vise on ordinary citizens' capacity to defend themselves rather than to constrain the sectors of society nigh responsible for the violence."
—Angelo M. Codevilla, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Boston University; writer, Informing Statecraft, War: Ends and Means (with Paul Seabury), The Character of Nations, and Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History

" Gun Command in the Third Reich is a provocative book on what is surely the 'worst case scenario' in the history of gun control and an illuminating meditation on the function that the disarming of the Jews played in the Holocaust."
—Jonathan Kirsch, writer, The Curt, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan

"What good would private arms exercise against a totalitarian state? That won't remain an unanswerable rhetorical challenge for readers of Stephen Halbrook'southward calm, detailed scholarly volume, Gun Command in the Third Reich . As Halbrook shows, Nazi leaders went to great lengths to extend the gun command laws they inherited from the Weimar Republic. They were obsessed with convincing Jews and other designated public enemies. Potential resistance was not only physically disabled. It was morally and psychologically disarmed. Evil then became irresistible in Deutschland, not because it was fueled by fanaticism simply because shielded by fatalism."
—Jeremy A. Rabkin, Professor of Police force, George Mason University Schoolhouse of Constabulary

"Even a defence force with small arms against a tyrannical authorities, if known, tin can galvanize public opinion which is the ultimate source of all political authority. That is why, every bit Halbrook authoritatively shows in Gun Command in the Third Reich , the Nazis—despite their massive military strength—went out of their way to confiscate even small caliber weapons in Frg."
—Donald Due west. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Emory University

"'The devil is in the details' as the British note. Stephen Halbrook's excellent and deeply researched volume, Gun Control in the Tertiary Reich , has revealed the anticipation of Nazi gun command techniques in Weimar attempts to control incipient civil war between Nazis and Communists. In a conservative land replete with WWI veterans, racked with unemployment and wrecked with ideological struggles amid the extreme Left, the list of potential victims proliferated amongst whom unarmed Jews had elevation priority. They had been quickly disarmed by the Nazis using Weimar laws. But armed peasants and urban refugees in the mountains and forests in the perimeters of the Reich could resist the Nazi juggernaut until saved by Allied armies. History does indeed provide important lessons for gimmicky debates and Halbrook's of import research should inform our contemporary fence on gun control."
—Steven B. Bowman, Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati; Miles Lerner Fellow, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; whose books include Jewish Resistance in Wartime Hellenic republic, The Holocaust in Salonika, The Agony of Greek Jews 1940-1945, and The Straits of Hell: The Chronicle of a Salonikan Jew in the Nazi Extermination Camps Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee

"For Jews left trembling in their homes, powerless to defend against Nazi Stormtroopers, the right to possess a gun took on special meaning in the 1940's. In Stephen Halbrook's extraordinary volume, Gun Command in the 3rd Reich , the outcome of disarming a population making them vulnerable to imprisonment and annihilation is told with frightening detail. It is a history with poignancy. With gun controllers in our midst today, who either do not sympathise the Second Amendment or cull to redefine it for their own ends, it would serve them well to read and digest the powerful arguments in this pathbreaking book."
—Herbert I. London, President, London Center for Policy Inquiry; onetime President, Hudson Institute

"With Gun Control in the 3rd Reich , Stephen Halbrook has written an important and disturbing book. It provides a timely reminder that self defence force and the right to bear arms are cardinal human being rights."
—Robert J. Cottrol, Professor of Law, History, and Folklore and Harold Paul Greenish Research Professor of Law, George Washington University

"One need not agree with Stephen Halbrook's opposition to almost all forms of firearms command in gild to find Gun Command in the 3rd Reich , his book on regulation of firearms in mail-Globe State of war I and Nazi Germany, both illuminating and challenging. The most truly serious arguments against significant regulation of firearms take always involved critiquing the proffer that a potentially oppressive state should accept a monopoly over the means of violence, and Halbrook's book very much contributes to that debate. Many no doubt would like to believe that Nazi Germany is sui generis, which, paradoxically, implies that there is not much to be learned from its specific history or policies with regard to our own dilemmas today. Others are less optimistic, and for them Halbrook'due south well-told narrative has implications for our contemporary debates."
—Sanford V. Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair, University of Texas School of Law; writer, Framed: America'southward 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

"In Gun Command in the Tertiary Reich , Stephen P. Halbrook gives a decisive historical answer to a question which has by and large been discussed without much show in the political soapbox of recent years. Now there is no doubt: Halbrook shows that the Nazis relied on gun control to carry out its totalitarian program. Indeed, by means of painstaking historical research, he shows that the weapon confiscations and punishments of the Third Reich relied very much on the earlier registration measures of the democratic Weimar Republic. This pioneering book tells an essential story that is central to the history of the modern Leviathan state. Highly recommended!"
—50. Hunt Tooley, Professor of History, Austen Higher; whose books include Indigenous Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Battleground and Abode Front end in the First World War, and National Identity and Weimar Frg

"Discussions of Nazi gun control efforts are a staple of American argue, but until at present there was niggling administrative in-depth research to depict on. Stephen Halbrook'south extensive research and clear explication in his book Gun Command in the Third Reich ensures that futurity word volition be much better informed. A must-read for anyone interested in this subject."
—Glenn H. Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee

"In Gun Control in the Third Reich , Stephen Halbrook has uncovered and thoroughly documented a long-overlooked attribute of Hitler'due south rise to Power and ultimate genocide of German Jews—the convincing of the denizens made possible by gun registration and confiscation laws adopted during the Weimar Democracy. The parallels to today's gun control debates in the United States are bone-spooky, and ought to raise a crimson flag phone call to activeness for all freedom-loving Americans."
—John C. Eastman, Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service, Chapman University; Founding Director, Heart for Constitutional Jurisprudence

"Stephan Halbrook'southward Gun Control in the Third Reich provides a stark example of why defenders of freedom must oppose any attempts to limit our ability to defend ourselves from private and public criminals. Halbrook'southward work is especially timely since so many in Washington are once once again trying to convince the people they take nothing to fear from gun registration and other infringements on our Second Amendment rights."
—Ron Paul, former U.S. Congressman and candidate for President of the United states

"Steeped in rich detail, exactingly researched, and supported by newly discovered documents, Gun Control in the 3rd Reich is a compelling work that no ane who is serious nigh the gun control debate in America tin ignore. Stephen P. Halbrook has produced a seminal piece of scholarship that describes how the gun control policies of the liberal Weimar Republic were molded into Hitler'due south strategy to disarm both the Jews and his political opponents."
—Abraham H. Miller, Professor Emeritus of Political Scientific discipline, University of Cincinnati

" Gun Command in the Third Reich , Stephen Halbrook'due south extensively documented account of gun control under Nazi Frg, shows how gun control was used to go on guns out of the 'incorrect' hands, mainly Jews. Much of the discussion these days regarding registration focuses on the claimed ability to trace crime guns. There might be no show of registration'southward success in doing that, but Halbrook slams home the success that registration had in tracing the guns of law-abiding politically undesirable citizens, so-called 'enemies of the people.' Americans in even modern cities such as New York tin see how discretionary licensing on who tin can own guns keeps blacks from owning guns, but Germany paints a motion-picture show of how discretion was used to disarm Jews and others considered undesirable. Among the many spooky discussions is how High german Jews were systematically disarmed but weeks before the Night of the Broken Glass (Reichskristallnacht). Ultimately, however, but as Americans have recently learned about their IRS revenue enhancement records, Halbrook shows that no one tin really guarantee promises that information on gun registration volition never be abused."
—John R. Lott, Jr., writer, More Guns, Less Crime; President, Crime Prevention Research Heart

"In Gun Control in the Third Reich , Halbrook is specially effective in showing how the path for Nazi totalitarianism was cleared, though inadvertently, by firearms laws of Weimar Germany. The political objective of those laws was to enhance the public welfare by diminishing the ability of the population to inflict violence on each other. What followed instead was something not foreseen by the principled, well-intending Weimar democrats who carried that policy into execution. Those laws—heavily laden with official discretion—left disfavored minorities perfectly helpless when Hitler and the Nazi government came to power. Halbrook'south book is the near complete delineation of a story that is interesting in itself, and which has lessons for our own identify and fourth dimension."
—Daniel D. Polsby, Dean and Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

"Stephen Halbrook, a renowned proficient on the subject, systematically and brilliantly examines Nazi gun-control policy in Gun Control in the Tertiary Reich . American advocates of banning guns have tried to downplay the Nazi example because stringent command preceded the Nazis. But the fact remains that the Nazis capitalized on the fact that neither the Jews nor other victims nor the Germans in general, as well as those people in the occupied countries, could resist the Holocaust because the Nazi government had all the guns."
—Don B. Kates, Jr., author, Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control and The Great American Gun Fence (with Gary Kleck)

"The fascinating book Gun Control in the Tertiary Reich deals with firearms regulation in Germany from the beginning of the Weimar Commonwealth in the early 1920s, when guns began to be heavily regulated, through the early on days of Earth State of war Two when gun buying was punishable past expiry, through the Third Reich in 1945 when the government began to allow Germans access to weapons to fend off the Russian invaders. . . . Professor Halbrook does not claim that Hitler and the Holocaust would not have occurred had the population of Federal republic of germany been armed. Nonetheless, firearms in the possession of individuals, especially Jews afterwards they were ghettoized, might have raised the costs to the Nazis and slowed them down."
—William A. Schroeder, Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University

" Gun Control in the Tertiary Reich is Stephen Halbrook's best book. He shows how the devastation of gun ownership, gun clubs, and self-defense was part of the National Socialists' extermination of civil society, individualism, and the Rule of Law."
—David B. Kopel, Adjunct Professor of Avant-garde Constitutional Police force, Denver University Sturm College of Constabulary; author, Guns: Who Should Take Them?; Research Director, Independence Institute