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Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State

Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State

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General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1598133055
ISBN13: 9781598133059
Publisher: Independent Institute
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Based on secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power.

The countless books on the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so--it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups.

Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularly the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

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