HALBROOK: What made the Nazi Holocaust possible? Gun control

Washington Times ^ | November 7, 2013 | Stephen P. Halbrook

[neverdem]

This week marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, the Nazi pogrom against Germany’s Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938. Historians have documented most everything about it except what made it so easy to attack the defenseless Jews without fear of resistance. Their guns were registered and thus easily confiscated.

To illustrate, turn the clock back further and focus on just one victim, a renowned German athlete. Alfred Flatow won first place in gymnastics at the 1896 Olympics. In 1932, he dutifully registered three handguns, as required by a decree of the liberal Weimar Republic. The decree also provided that in times of unrest, the guns could be confiscated. The government gullibly neglected to consider that only law-abiding citizens would register, while political extremists and criminals would not.

However, it did warn that the gun-registration records must be carefully stored so they would not fall into the hands of extremists.

The ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power just a year later, in 1933. The Nazis immediately used the firearms-registration records to identify, disarm and attack “enemies of the state,” a euphemism for Social Democrats and other political opponents of all types. Police conducted search-and-seizure operations for guns and “subversive” literature in Jewish communities and working-class neighborhoods...

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These horrific events were widely reported in the American media, such as The New York Times. After Hitler launched World War II, the United States made preparations in case it was dragged into the conflict. Just before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress passed a law noting the Gestapo methods and declaring that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms may not be infringed by such measures as registration of firearms...

[Travis McGee]

[Mister Da]

Before there was gun control there was the low information voter.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[GraceG]

My Liberal Professor told me that the thing to blame was “Small Limited Government”... you see the Nazi’s had this Guy named Hanz who was really really efficient and could singlehandedly round up many thousands of jews and christians and gypsies every day..... ALL BY HIMSELF

You see if they had a Big all controlling government they wouldn’t have been able to handle all the paperwork and tracking of people with somelike like a primitve punchcard computer to handle all of the logistics that rounding up million of people and taking them tot he death camps entails...

But you see that small limited government was so small that they could not stop Hanz from single handedly rounding up and gassing all of the Jews by himself.... Because you see the people could have gone to their local government office and complained to someome who could have filed the needed paperwork to put an end to Hanz’s Jewish and Christian and Gypsy killing spree........

/sarcastic...

[neverdem]

Thanks for the pic!

[Kevmo]

After Hitler launched World War II, the United States made preparations in case it was dragged into the conflict. Just before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress passed a law noting the Gestapo methods and declaring that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms may not be infringed by such measures as registration of firearms...
***What law was that? I’d like to read up a bit more.

[colorado tanker]

I’m a Second Amendment supporter but it’s pretty far fetched to blame the Holocaust on gun registration. German Jews were too few to take down the Nazis once they began deporting Jews to the camps. As in Warsaw, they could have taken some Nazis down, but not stop what was happening.

[Hardastarboard]

Your satirical comment has probably already been uttered by some insane lefty college prof somewhere. I’m only half kidding.

[Big Red Badger]

Far Fetched,,,???
we’ll never know,will we.

[Therapsid]

Thats probly why we made thousands of these to drop on occupied areas...

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=fp-yff24&va=the+liberator+45

[jmacusa]

All of these dictatorial regimes imposed ''health care for all''too. And they were all Leftest ideologies.

[antceecee]

It’s the process of registration of “anything”... your guns... your healthcare... your personal information (as in the American Community Survey)... knowledge is power. They intend to use any and all of this to increase their power and control over the people.