"Dr. Dean, a co-researcher, said the findings left no doubt in his mind that many German citizens, despite the frequent claims of ignorance after the war, must have known about the widespread existence of the Nazi camps at the time.

“You literally could not go anywhere in Germany without running into forced labor camps, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps,” he said. “They were everywhere.” "

"University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth (that Hitler widely confiscated citizens' weapons with a 1938 law) in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them.

The 1938 law signed by Hitler that (NRA head) LaPierre mentions in his book basically does the opposite of what he says it did. “The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years."

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"Besides, Omer Bartov, a historian at Brown University who studies the Third Reich, notes that the Jews probably wouldn’t have had much success fighting back. “Just imagine the Jews of Germany exercising the right to bear arms and fighting the SA, SS and the Wehrmacht. The Red Army lost 7 million men fighting the Wehrmacht, despite its tanks and planes and artillery. The Jews with pistols and shotguns would have done better?” he told Salon." 

 
In my opinion, the USA will not solve its problems of violence until its actions and words coincide.  The sad reality is metastatic hypocrisy:

• A constitution of liberty and equality framed by slavers.
• Respect for property rights on land taken from the natives by armed robbery.
• World cops keeping the peace worldwide with wars of conquest.
• Freedom of ("American") thought.
• Free market capitalism with state controlled money supply.
• Freedom of choice among "uncontrolled substances".
• Freedom of speech for all who own a network.
• Justice for all who own a judge.
• Plenty more ...

Of course that schizophrenia can resolve either way; towards honestly doing what is said, or honestly saying what is done.

Yep, Hitler/Nazis did what they did because they took Germans' guns away from them. Soon to be corrected in all the history books.



Hey Elmer Fudd: try to get a grip on reality.

 
Ok..name one well armed nation that a gov't decioded to take control of and force millions do death chambers? If something like that was to occur, who is more likely to be going into "re-education", the unarmed, or those who refuse to be helpless sots? Hitler , the Junta in Burma, the VC, all disarm the populace for a reason ,and crime is not it.

Funny. but those libs and leftists are the loudest about revolutions and oppression of even non-existing rights yet think being disarmed is the way to go..

very short sighted.....but to be expected of any leftist.