How Adolf Hitler Prevented
'Subject Races' from Possessing Arms
by AWR Hawkins 27 Oct 2013, 5:22
PM PDT
During a speech in 1942, Adolf
Hitler said, "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to
allow the subject races to posses arms." In other words, Jews and others
whom Hitler wanted to wipe from the earth first had to be separated from their
guns.
This was not new position for
Hitler. Rather, it was something he had put into practice from the moment he
came into office.
When Adolf Hitler came to power in
1933, he seized gun registration information that had been compiled by Germany's previous government under the
premise that the information would not fall into the wrong hands or be used for
an all-out confiscation scheme. But as gun scholar Stephen P. Halbrook makes
clear in his new book, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and
"Enemies of the State," Hitler's hands were the wrong hands. And Hitler and the Nazi movement used all the information they could find—as well as
the threat of brute force and death—to force Jews and others to hand over their
firearms.
As Halbrook put it: "The
Nazis thought it was pretty important to be sure the Jews weren't armed."
Gun Control in the Third Reich
covers gun control under Hitler but, perhaps more importantly, it covers the
methodology of that gun control in great detail. In so doing, Halbrook helps
the reader sees how registration led to confiscation, and how confiscation
turned citizens into subjects and eventually into victims—victims of their own
government and/or of an invading force.
Halbrook also shows how propaganda
was used to further gun control and how terms like "assault rifle"
did not exist until Hitler created them.
When Breitbart News spoke to
Halbrook about this book and the growth of gun laws in the U.S., he said it was the Gun
Control Act of 1968 that drew his attention to the tactics Nazis used to disarm
the Jews:
1968 was only 23 years after World
War II ended and there was some back and forth in Congress on what the Nazis
had done. The Library of Congress did a study to see if it could turn up
information on any Nazi registration scheme but it could not--the dirty little
secret is that it was not intended to. Gun control was going to happen.
Halbrook talked about the
implementation of the instant background check under Bill Clinton and how Janet
Reno wanted to keep background check records for six months. It was out of
fear that those records could be used for devious ends—perhaps a registration
and confiscation scheme—that Halbrook litigated a case against Reno's plan and
then Congress intervened with a law that required the destruction of said
records after 24 hours.
According to Halbrook, this is the
fight that has to be fought—the fight to keep such information from being
gathered in the first place.
Said Halbrook: "The Nazi example is not a warning of what will
happen but of what could happen. We can't dismiss it by saying, 'Germans didn't
have a Second Amendment tradition to defend them like we do.' We have to
minimize government information on gun owners."
Janet Reno
Janet
Reno was the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the William
J. Clinton administration, and is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society.
Note: Eric H. Holder Jr.
is the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, and was a board member for the American Constitution Society.
Why Eric Holder will lose the legal fight
Federal courts could soon decide a fight between Congress
and Attorney General Eric Holder on
the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. If Republicans persevere,
this is a battle that Holder should lose in what would be a humiliating defeat
for President Barack Obama.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Richard
R. Burt is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was the U.S. ambassador for Germany.
Adolf
Hitler was the fuhrer for Germany,
and the leader for the Nazi Party.
Nazi Party
was a political party for Germany.
Rozanne
L. Ridgway was a U.S.
ambassador for Germany,
and the co-chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Chuck Hagel
is the chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and
the secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Michael
P.C. Carns was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and is a director at the Freedom Group.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Freedom Group.
Daniel R.
Coats was a lobbyist for Cerberus Capital Management L.P., and a U.S. ambassador for Germany.
Stephen
A. Feinberg is the CEO for Cerberus Capital Management L.P., and his
father is Martin Feinberg.
Martin
Feinberg is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and a Newtown (CT)
resident.
Newtown (CT)
is the location of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary
School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings 28
killed, including gunman.
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