0121stockpicker
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Yes, I agree, we should know and understand history. It can be repeated!
All hell broke loose on Nov. 10: "Nazis Smash, Loot and Burn Jewish Shops and Temples." "One of the first legal measures issued was an order by Heinrich Himmler, commander of all German police, forbidding Jews to possess any weapons whatever and imposing a penalty of twenty years confinement in a concentration camp upon every Jew found in possession of a weapon hereafter."[SUP]3[/SUP] Thousands of Jews were taken away.
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Invading Nazi troops in Holland in 1940 immediately nailed up posters announcing a ban on all firearms. From Die Deutsche Wochenshau, May 15, 1940.
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Searches of Jewish homes were calculated to seize firearms and assets and to arrest adult males. The American Consulate in Stuttgart was flooded with Jews begging for visas: "Men in whose homes old, rusty revolvers had been found during the last few days cried aloud that they did not dare ever again return to their places of residence or business. In fact, it was a mass of seething, panic-stricken humanity."[SUP]4[/SUP] Himmler, head of the Nazi terror police, would become an architect of the Holocaust, which consumed six million Jews. It was self evident that the Jews must be disarmed before the extermination could begin.
Finding out which Jews had firearms was not too difficult. The liberal Weimar Republic passed a Firearm Law in 1928 requiring extensive police records on gun owners. Hitler signed a further gun control law in early 1938.
So packer, lets look at an alternative history where the Jews still had there guns. Tell me how it plays out? They form a big massive army in Germany and take over the country? What was the armed jewish population compared to the police and military of Germany. Now you probably do not know that in the beginning most jews just thought they were being interred in forced labor camps and not be rounded up for extermination. Even at the camps they did not know their fate until gas came out of the showers instead of water - you know this. And obviously no one is publishing stories in the paper or spreading the word - right. So when the knock came at your door you would have been guns blazing guaranteeing the death of you and your entire family?? Do you think Japanese and german Americans being rounded by the US should have resisted with lethal force?? They could have ended up getting exterminated too - right?? Look at the gov history with the native Americans and camps.
I know the nazis disarming the jews is a standard piece of gun propaganda but you need to take a step back and think it through. The argument is not a good one at all and breaks down very very quickly with any thought put to it. I studied prewar nazi germany in school. It's not as simple as the propaganda makes you think - it never is. And frankly it is a little bit insulting the all that died in the holocaust.