Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.
Contents
Insurrection and repression -- The 1928 law on firearms -- Keeping firearm registrations out of the wrong hands? -- The Nazi seizure of power -- Disarming the politically unreliable : the case of Brandenburg -- Defining enemies of the state -- From the night of the long knives to the Nurnberg laws -- The Gestapo -- Hitler's gun control act -- October prelude : arresting Jewish firearm owners -- Goebbels orchestrates a pogrom -- Jewish victims speak -- Conclusion : whither the German resistance, whither the holocaust?
