How Adolf Hitler Prevented 'Subject Races' from Possessing Arms

How Adolf Hitler Prevented 'Subject Races' from Possessing Arms

by AWR Hawkins 27 Oct 2013, 5:22 PM PDT

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/27/How-Adolf-Hitler-Prevented-Subject-Races-From-Possessing-Arms

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

http://nraila.org/search.aspx?s=eric%20holder

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.