Gun Control in the Third Reich Quotes

“the Nazis confiscated firearms to prevent armed resistance, whether individual or collective, to their own criminality.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State

“A vegetarian, the führer was sensitive to the feelings of animals and remarked: “The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would do well to turn its attention to the sportsmen themselves.”6 As the war and the Holocaust would prove, he had no such sensitivity to humans.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State

“The paradigm that government should have a monopoly of small arms implies the surreal normative postulate that citizens—or, rather, subjects—should be treated as the Jews were in Nazi Germany.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State

“Nazi policies prohibiting possession of firearms helped to consolidate Hitler's power at home, exacerbated persecution of the Jews, aiding their arrest and deportation, and foreshadowed some of the more severe policies undertaken during the war.”
― Stephen P. Halbrook, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State