Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
"Stephen Halbrook's meticulous research inGun Control in the Third Reichsheds new and revealing light on the consolidation of Nazi power and the prosecution of the Holocaust. Everyone, including advocates of gun controls, should find this pioneering and thought-provoking book essential reading." —James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, New York University; author,Can Gun Control Work?"Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook's excellent history of gun control in Germany, shows that, motives notwithstanding, removing weapons from the general population always disarms society vis a vis its worst elements. In Germany the authorities tried to deal with the Nazi and Communist mobs that were shaking society's foundations indirectly, by disarming ordinary people. But their cowardice ended up delivering a helpless population to the Nazis' tender mercies. Halbrook's richly documented history leads Americans to ask why those among us who decry violence in our society choose to try tightening the vise on ordinary citizens' capacity to defend themselves rather than to constrain the sectors of society most responsible for the violence." —Angelo M. Codevilla, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Boston University; author,Informing Statecraft, War: Ends and Means(with Paul Seabury), The Character of Nations, and Betweenthe Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War IIand theRewriting of History