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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453234203321

Autore

Halbrook Stephen P

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : The Independent Institute, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-59813-164-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

363.330943/09043

Soggetti

Firearms - Law and legislation - Germany - History - 20th century

Gun control - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Legal status, laws, etc - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?

Sommario/riassunto

<P style=""BORDER-TOP-COLOR: ; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: ; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: ; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: "">Based on newly discovered secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, <I>Gun Control in the Third Reich</I> presents the definitive yet hidden history of how the Nazi dictatorship made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate its 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 skepti