I am writing a book on Nazi policies and practices that sought to repress civilian gun ownership and eradicate gun owners in Germany and occupied Europe. The following sampling of my findings should give pause to the suggestion that draconian punishment of citizens for keeping firearms is necessarily a social good. It was preceded by the confiscation of firearms from the Jewish victims. Any Jews still found in possession of weapons without valid licenses are threatened with the severest punishment. 2 On the evening of Nov. 9, Adolph Hitler, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi chiefs planned the attack.
Jewish synagogues are to be set on fire .
The F hrer wishes that the police does not intervene. All Jews are to be disarmed. In the event of resistance they are to be shot immediately. 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. 4 Thousands of Jews were taken away.