Halbrook, Stephen P.

Gun control in the Third Reich : disarming the Jews and "enemies of the state" / Stephen P. Halbrook. - 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, portraits

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

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?

9781598131642


Firearms--Law and legislation--History--Germany--20th century.
Gun control--History--Germany--20th century.
Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--20th century.


Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.


Electronic books.

KK6010 / .H35 2013

363.330943/09043