by Dr. William L. Pierce
ADOLF HITLER has been the favorite whipping boy of Jewish and non-Jewish neo-liberal publicists alike for so long now that many persons have, in all innocence, attributed to him a number of sins of which he was actually blameless.
One of these imaginary sins was the dispossession of the German civilian population of their firearms. American opponents of gun-control legislation are in the unfortunate habit of describing proposed firearms laws as “Hitlerian” and issuing grim warnings that “it happened in Germany, and it can happen here” — referring, of course, to their predictions that gun-control advocates are aiming at the total confiscation of firearms from U.S. citizens.
Well, they are undoubtedly right about what the anti-gun people in Washington have in mind, but they are dead wrong about Hitler and Germany. Under Hitler, German citizens were completely free to own and bear firearms — both long guns and pistols.
Hitler’s government recognized the basic right of self-defense of German citizens and encouraged civilian marksmanship and sport shooting. Hitler himself was an expert pistol shot.
There were no restrictions or licensing requirements at all for long guns and ammunition, and only minimal licensing requirements for handguns — until 1945, that is, when the Americans and their Soviet allies took over.
After that, German civilians in the eastern occupation zone were summarily shot if they were found in possession of so much as a single rifle cartridge. And good democrat Willy Brandt (Bastard Frahm) has introduced such stiff firearms restrictions in West Germany that it is virtually impossible for a German civilian to purchase any sort of firearm unless he belongs to a government-sanctioned club. The penalty for possession of an unregistered gun is five years imprisonment.
A good general rule is this: Governments with a strong popular backing do not seek to disarm their citizens, and governments which do take guns away from the people, regardless of the pretext they use, are afraid of the armed opposition of their own citizens.
Hitler’s government was an extraordinarily popular one.
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Source: Issue No. 17, 1973, from the Best of Attack! and National Vanguard, edited by Kevin Alfred Strom
