Every time I turn around, I always here people
compare the gun laws that Feinstein and the Liberals throwing out there are
comparable to Hitler’s “Nazi” Germany.
Well, I did something for everyone out there who wants to know the
truth. I found an article for everyone
to see that not only is this a myth, but for people to wake up and stop using
such propaganda that isn’t even remotely true.
This is why America is failing in such things as they are today. Too many people want to remain ignorant and
rely on what they have been told versus what they actually researched for
themselves.
We American Nationalists will expose lies such as
this. We will not tolerate lies being fed
to our young generation to make them seem like idiots in the eyes of the world
because someone wanted it to be that way.
We are better than that and I hope each and every one of you will wake
up sooner rather than later.
Embrace your heritage as Americans. Love who you are and become an American
Nationalist Today.
Thanks for reading,
Christopher Chambless
Gun Control in Germany, 1928-1945
by William L. Pierce
A common belief among defenders of the Second Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is that the National Socialist government of Germany under Adolf
Hitler did not permit the private ownership of firearms. Totalitarian
governments, they have been taught in their high school civics classes, do not
trust their citizens and do not dare permit them to keep firearms. Thus, one
often hears the statement, "You know, the first thing the Nazis did when they
came to power was outlaw firearms," or, "The first thing Hitler did in Germany
was round up all the guns."
One can understand why many American gun owners want to believe this. They
see in the current effort of their own government to take away their right to
keep and bear arms a limitation of an essential element of their freedom and a
move toward tyranny, and they want to characterize the gun-grabbers in the most
negative way they can. Adolf Hitler has been vilified continuously for the past
60 years or so by the mass media in America, and certainly no politician or
officeholder wants to be compared with him. If the gun-confiscation effort can
be portrayed convincingly as something of which Hitler would have approved, it
will have been effectively tarred.
This identification of the inclination to deny citizens the right to keep and
bear arms with National Socialism and Adolf Hitler has been strengthened
recently by clever magazine advertisements which show Hitler with his arm
outstretched in a Roman salute under a heading: "All in favor of gun control
raise your right hand." A Jewish group, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms
Ownership (JPFO), quite noisy for its size, has been especially zealous in
promoting the idea that the current gun-control effort in America has its roots
in Germany during the Hitler period. This group has gone so far as to claim in
several articles published in popular magazines read by firearms enthusiasts
that the current restrictive legislation being proposed by the U.S. government
is modeled on a gun-control statute enacted by Germany's National Socialist
government: the German Weapons Law (Waffengesetz) of March 18, 1938.
Again, one can understand the motivation of the JPFO. Many non-Jewish
firearms owners are well aware that the movement to restrict their rights is led
and promoted primarily by Jews, and anti-Jewish feeling has been growing among
them. They know that the controlled news media, which are almost unanimously in
favor of abridging or abolishing the Second Amendment, are very much under the
influence of Jews, and they know that the most vocal anti-gun legislators in the
Congress also are Jews. It is natural for a group such as the JPFO to mount a
damage- control effort and attempt to prevent anti-Jewish feeling from becoming
even stronger among gun owners. Their strategy is to deflect the blame from
their kinsmen in the media and the government and direct it onto their most
hated enemies, the National Socialists -- or at least to create enough smoke to
obscure the facts and keep the gun-owning public confused.
Unfortunately for those who would like to link Hitler and the National
Socialists with gun control, the entire premise for such an effort is false.
German firearms legislation under Hitler, far from banning private ownership,
actually facilitated the keeping and bearing of arms by German citizens by
eliminating or ameliorating restrictive laws which had been enacted by the
government preceding his: a left-center government which had contained a number
of Jews.
It is not just that the National Socialist firearms legislation was the
opposite of what it has been claimed to have been by persons who want to tar
modern gun-grabbers with the "Nazi" brush: the whole spirit of Hitler's
government was starkly different from its portrayal by America's mass media. The
facts, in brief, are these:
- The National Socialist government of Germany, unlike the government in
Washington today, did not fear its citizens. Adolf Hitler was the most popular
leader Germany has ever had. Unlike American presidents, he did not have to wear
body armor and have shields of bulletproof glass in front of him whenever he
spoke in public. At public celebrations he rode standing in an open car as it
moved slowly through cheering crowds. Communists made several attempts to
assassinate him, and his government stamped down hard on communism, virtually
wiping it out in Germany. Between upright, law-abiding German citizens and Adolf
Hitler, however, there was a real love affair, with mutual trust and respect.
- The spirit of National Socialism was one of manliness, and individual
self-defense and self- reliance were central to the National Socialist view of
the way a citizen should behave. The notion of banning firearms ownership was
utterly alien to National Socialism. In the German universities, where National
Socialism gained its earliest footholds and which later became its strongest
bastions, dueling was an accepted practice. Although the liberal-Jewish
governments in Germany after the First World War attempted to ban dueling, it
persisted illegally until it was again legalized by the National Socialists.
Fencing, target shooting, and other martial arts were immensely popular in
Germany, and the National Socialists encouraged young Germans to become
proficient in these activities, believing that they were important for the
development of a man's character.
- Gun registration and licensing (for long guns as well as for handguns) were
legislated by an anti-National Socialist government in Germany in 1928, five
years before the National Socialists gained power. Hitler became Chancellor on
January 30, 1933. Five years later his government got around to rewriting the
gun law enacted a decade earlier by his predecessors, substantially amel ior a
ting it in the process (for example, long guns were exempted from the
requirement for a purchase permit; the legal age for gun ownership was lowered
from 20 to 18 years; the period of validity of a permit to carry weapons was
extended from one to three years; and provisions restricting the amount of
ammunition or the number of firearms an individual could own were dropped).
Hitler's government may be criticized for leaving certain restrictions and
licensing requirements in the law, but the National Socialists had no intention
of preventing law-abiding Germans from keeping or bearing arms. Again, the
firearms law enacted by Hitler's government enhanced the rights of Germans to
keep and bear arms; no new restrictions were added, and many pre-existing
restrictions were relaxed or eliminated.
- At the end of the Second World War, American GIs in the occupying force were
astounded to discover how many German civilians owned private firearms. Tens of
thousands of pistols looted from German homes by GIs were brought back to the
United States after the war. In 1945 General Eisenhower ordered all privately
owned firearms in the American occupation zone of Germany confiscated, and
Germans were required to hand in their shotguns and rifles as well as any
handguns which had not already been stolen. In the Soviet occupation zone German
civilians were summarily shot if they were found in possession of even a single
cartridge.
- Jews, it should be noted, were not Germans, even if they had been born in
Germany. The National Socialists defined citizenship in ethnic terms, and under
Hitler Jews were not accorded full rights of citizenship. National Socialist
legislation progressively excluded Jews from key professions: teaching, the
media, the practice of law, etc. The aim was not only to free German life from
an oppressive and degenerative Jewish influence, but to persuade Jews to
emigrate. The German Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, specifically excluded Jews
from manufacturing or dealing in firearms or munitions, but it did not exclude
them from owning or bearing personal firearms. The exclusion of Jews from the
firearms business rankled them as much as any other exclusion, and in their
typically ethnocentric fashion they have misrepresented the law involved as an
anti-gun law in an effort to cast their enemies in a bad light.
It should be noted in passing that the restrictions placed on Jews by the
National Socialists had the intended effect: between 1933 and 1939 two-thirds of
the Jews residing in Germany emigrated, reducing the Jewish population of the
country from 600,000 when Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 to 200,000 at the
outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Jews in the United States, looking at
this period from their own narrowly focused viewpoint, have described these
peacetime years of the National Socialist government as a time of darkness,
terror, and regression, whereas for the German people it was a time of hope,
joy, and spiritual and material renewal.
Much the same type of distortion is seen in the portrayal of the United
States in the early 1950s: the so-called "McCarthy Era." Senator Joseph McCarthy
(Republican, Wisconsin) used his position as chairman of the Senate's Government
Operations Committee to expose the widespread communist infiltration of the U.S.
government and other U.S. institutions which had taken place during the Second
World War. A substantial majority of the communists who were dragged reluctantly
out into the light of day by his efforts were Jews. As a result, the controlled
media always have portrayed the period as one of terror and repression, when
everyone was frightened of Senator McCarthy's "witch-hunt." Of course, it was
nothing of the sort to non-Jewish Americans, who were not intimidated in the
least. History viewed through a Jewish lens -- i.e., through media controlled by
Jews -- always is distorted in a way corresponding to Jewish interests and
concerns.
Both the German Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, enacted by the National
Socialists, and the Law on Firearms and Ammunition of April 12, 1928, which was
enacted by an anti-National Socialist government, are given below in full, first
in facsimile and then in English translation. A little background information
first, however, may help the reader to understand their significance.
After Germany's defeat in the First World War (a defeat in which Germany's
Jews played no small part, demoralizing the home front with demonstrations and
other subversive activity much as they did in America during the Vietnam war),
the Kaiser abdicated, and liberals and leftists seized control of the government
in 1918. Hitler, recovering in a military hospital from a British poison-gas
attack which had blinded him temporarily, made the decision to go into politics
and fight against the traitors he felt were responsible for Germany's
distress.
The tendency of Germany's new rulers after the First World War was much the
same as it is for the liberals in America today: they promoted cosmopolitanism,
internationalism, and egalitarianism. By 1923 economic conditions in Germany had
become catastrophic, and there was much public unrest. The communists had made
major inroads into the labor movement and were a growing threat to the
country.
Hitler had indeed gone into politics, and his National Socialists battled the
communists in the streets of Germany's cities and gradually came to be seen by
many patriotic Germans in the working class and the middle class as the only
force which could save Germany from a communist takeover and total ruin.
Hitler's National Socialists continued to win recruits and gain strength during
the 1920s. The communists, with aid from the Soviet Union, also continued to
grow. The political situation became increasingly unstable as the government
lost popular support.
The government's response was to substantially tighten up restrictions on the
rights of German citizens to keep and bear arms. The Law on Firearms and
Ammunition of April 12, 1928, was the most substantial effort in this regard.
This law was enacted by a left-center government hostile to the National
Socialists (the government was headed by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and consisted
of a coalition of Socialists, including many Jews, and Catholic Centrists).
Five years later, in 1933, the National Socialists were in power, Hitler
headed the government, and the communist threat was crushed decisively. The
National Socialists began undoing the social and economic damage done by their
predecessors. Germany was restored to full employment, degeneracy and corruption
were rooted out, Jews and their collaborators were removed from one facet of
national life after another, and the German people entered a new era of national
freedom, health, and prosperity.
Finally, in 1938, the National Socialist government got around to enacting a
new firearms law to replace the one enacted by their opponents ten years
earlier. The highlights of the 1938 law, especially as it applied to ordinary
citizens rather than manufacturers or dealers, follow:
- Handguns may be purchased only on submission of a Weapons Acquisition Permit
(Waffenerwerbschein), which must be used within one year from the date of issue.
Muzzle- loading handguns are exempted from the permit requirement. [The 1928 law
had required a permit for the purchase of long guns as well, but the National
Socialists dropped this requirement.]
- Holders of a permit to carry weapons (Waffenschein) or of a hunting license
do not need a Weapons Acquisition Permit in order to acquire a handgun.
- A hunting license authorizes its bearer to carry hunting weapons and
handguns.
- Firearms and ammunition, as well as swords and knives, may not be sold to
minors under the age of 18 years. [The age limit had been 20 years in the 1928
law.]
- Whoever carries a firearm outside of his dwelling, his place of employment,
his place of business, or his fenced property must have on his person a Weapons
Permit (Waffenschein). A permit is not required, however, for carrying a firearm
for use at a police-approved shooting range.
- A permit to acquire a handgun or to carry firearms may only be issued to
persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a
permit. In particular, a permit may not be issued to:
1. persons under the age of 18 years;
2. legally incompetent or mentally
retarded persons;
3. Gypsies or vagabonds;
4. persons under mandatory
police supervision [i.e., on parole] or otherwise temporarily without civil
rights;
5. persons convicted of treason or high treason or known to be
engaged in activities hostile to the state;
6. persons who for assault,
trespass, a breach of the peace, resistance to authority, a criminal offense or
misdemeanor, or a hunting or fishing violation were legally sentenced to a term
of imprisonment of more than two weeks, if three years have not passed since the
term of imprisonment.
- The manufacture, sale, carrying, possession, and import of the following are
prohibited:
1. "trick" firearms, designed so as to conceal their function (e.g., cane
guns and belt-buckle pistols);
2. any firearm equipped with a silencer and
any rifle equipped with a spotlight;
3. cartridges with .22 caliber,
hollow-point bullets.
That is the essence. Numerous other provisions of the
law relate to firearms manufacturers, importers, and dealers; to acquisition and
carrying of firearms by police, military, and other official personnel; to the
maximum fees which can be charged for permits (3 Reichsmark); to tourists
bringing firearms into Germany; and to the fines and other penalties to be
levied for violations.
The requirements of "trustworthiness" and of proof of need when obtaining a
permit are troubling, but it should be noted that they were simply carried over
from the 1928 law: they were not formulated by the National Socialists. Under
the National Socialists these requirements were interpreted liberally: a person
who did not fall into one of the prohibited categories listed above was
considered trustworthy, and a statement such as, "I often carry sums of money,"
was accepted as proof of need.
The prohibitions of spotlight-equipped rifles and hollow-point .22 caliber
ammunition were based on considerations that the former were unsporting when
used for hunting, and the latter were inhumane.
Now read the German firearms laws for yourself, either in the original German
exactly as they were published by the German government in the Reichsgesetzblatt
or in the complete English translations which are provided here. If you want to
skip over most of the legal gobbledygook and go directly to the most pertinent
part of the National Socialist Firearms Law -- the part pertaining to the
purchase, ownership, and carrying of firearms by private citizens -- turn to
page 35 (Part IV of the Law). Note, as already mentioned above, that two
separate and distinct types of permits are referred to: a Weapons Acquisition
Permit (Waffenerwerbschein), required only for purchasing a handgun; and a
Weapons Permit (Waffenschein), required for carrying any firearm in public.
Interestingly enough, as also mentioned above, a hunting license could take the
place of both these permits.
When you have read the two laws reproduced here, you will understand that it
was Hitler's enemies, not Hitler, who should be compared with the gun-control
advocates in America today. Then as now it was the Jews, not the National
Socialists, who wanted the people's right of self- defense restricted. You will
understand that those who continue to make the claim that Hitler was a
gun-grabber are either ignorant or dishonest. And you will understand that it
was not until 1945, when the communist and democratic victors of the Second
World War had installed occupation governments to rule over the conquered
Germans that German citizens were finally and completely denied the right to
armed self-defense.
For further information, write National Vanguard Books, PO Box 330, Hillsboro
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