Gun Control in the Third Reich (36 page)

A

Aachen, Germany,
188

Adler, Alois,
151
–
53
,
154
–
55
,
157

Allenstein, Germany,
39
,
123
–
24

Allen, William,
59
–
60

ammunition

in Decree Against Jews' Possession of Weapons,
177

hollow-point bullets,
126
,
134

license for purchase of,
17
,
43
,
131

overview,
159

See also
Law on Firearms and Ammunition of 1928; license to obtain a weapon or ammunition

Angriff
(newspaper),
165

Anschluss of Austria,
131

anti-Nazi elements,
138
–
39

“Anti-Semitic Measures of the Reich” (newspapers in Paris and Geneva),
162

Arendt, Hannah, xxii

“Assassination Plans in Jewish Circles” (Reich Main Security Office),
138
–
39

atonement fine on Jews for damage on Reichskristallnacht,
179
–
80

Attack on Peace
(Diewerge),
176

Austria,
131
,
173
,
178
,
190
,
198
–
99

B

Baden-Baden, Germany,
181

Baden, Free State,
38
–
39

Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany,
55
,
63

Baer, Dorothy,
196

Bard, Mitchell,
198

Bavaria,
5
,
10
,
13
,
16
,
88
,
102
,
164

Bavarian People's Party (Bayrische Volkspartei),
50
–
51

Bavarian Soviet Republic, collapse of,
10

Bavarian Supreme Regional Court in Munich (Bayerisches Oberstes Landesgericht München),
13

Bavaud, Maurice,
206

Berliner Börsenzeitung
(newspaper),
136
–
37

Berlin, Germany

Adler's arrest in,
151
–
53
,
154
–
55
,
157

Christmas political truce,
32

fighting without firearms,
12
–
13

firearms restrictions,
22

firearms seizures,
7
,
49
,
64
–
65
,
67
, insert–
2

Flatow's arrest in,
145
,
146
–
50
,
153
–
54
,
155
,
157
, insert–
4

Gold's arrest in,
150
–
51
,
154
,
155

police station attacked by Spartacists,
4
–
5

and Reichskristallnacht,
192
–
93

Sohn's prosecution in,
153
,
155
,
182
–
83

Berlin Turnerschaft (gymnastics society),
146

Best, Werner

about,
112
–
13
, insert–
3

Boxheim documents,
29
–
30

on Decree of February
28
, 1933,
52
–
53

directive on weapons permits for Jews,
111
–
13
,
158
, insert–
3

preventive detention procedure,
149

report on British citizen arrested in Vienna,
198
–
99

Bismarck, Gottfried,
215
,
216

Black Guards (Schwarze Korps),
180

Bloch, Peter,
197

Block (chief judge of Berlin District Court),
153

Blomberg, Werner von,
128

“Bloody Sunday,” Altona, Hamburg,
43

Böhmcker, Johann Heinrich,
166
–
67

Börgermoor Concentration Camp,
98

Börsen Zeitung
(newspaper),
165

Boxheim documents,
29
–
30

Brandenburg Province,
35
–
38
,
69
–
76
,
71
–
73
,
208

Braunschweig, Germany,
49
–
50

Brazilian gun control laws,
xix

Bredow, Wichard von,
197
–
98

Bremen legation,
31
–
32

Breslau (Wroclaw), Poland,
66

British Home Guard,
214
–
15

Brotherhood of St. Sebastian (Erzbruderschaft vom hl. Sebastianus, or EB),
120
–
21

Brüning, Heinrich,
29
–
30
,
32
, insert–
1

Buchenwald Concentration Camp,
174
, insert–
8

Buerckel, Joseph,
173

C

censorship / book burning,
67

census data,
67
–
68
,
147

Chicago Tribune
(newspaper),
199

Christianity and firearms registration system,
26

citizen of Germany, defining,
106

civilians' right to possess firearms controversy,
xvi
,
xviii

civil service, racial and political restrictions in,
65
–
66

Cohn, Bruno,
105

Colisle (police sergeant),
148
,
150

Communists

as catchall for enemies of the state,
54
,
68
,
102

Nazi repression of,
22
,
49
,
51
–
52
,
53
–
57
,
67

concentration camps,
77
,
97
–
99
,
101
,
168
–
71
,
210
.
See also specific camps

Coren, Henry,
198
–
99

Corner, Fritz,
211

Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German territory in,
160
,
174
,
178

D

Daluege, Kurt, insert–
6

Daniel, Jakob,
114

Danzig/Gdansk, Poland,
180

Davos Murder, The
(Ludwig),
117

Davos, Switzerland, shooting of Nazi by a Jew,
115
–
19
,
165

Dawson, Gertrude,
198

Day of the Movement (Tag der Bewegung),
164

Decree for the Protection of the Germany People,
89

Decree for the Protection of the People and the State (February
28
, 1933),
51
–
53
,
120

Decree for the Surrender of Weapons,
60
,
62
–
64

Decree of an Atonement Fine for Jews with German Citizenship,
179
–
80

Decree of the Council of People's Representatives on Weapons Possession (1919),
4
–
5
,
11
–
12
,
28

Decree/Regulation Against Jews' Possession of Weapons,
173
–
75
,
176
–
78

Der Strümer
(newspaper),
118
,
181

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
(newspaper),
19

Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft (Dehomag), IBM subsidiary in Germany,
67
–
68
,
107
,
138

Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung
(periodical),
19
–
20

Diewerge, Wolfgang,
117
,
176

Dingell, John,
xvii
n

Dinslaken, children's orphanage in,
187

discrimination.
See
political discrimination; racial discrimination

District of Borken,
191

Dodd, Thomas,
xviii
n

Dodd, William,
101
,
115
–
16

Dominian, Leon,
50

Dortmund, Germany,
190
–
91

Dowden, A. E.,
200

Dresden, Germany,
56
,
195

Düsseldorf, Germany,
50
,
54
,
114

Dzialowski, Frau,
188

E

Eberswalde Province firearms registration,
37

Ebert, Friedrich,
4

Ebert, Friedrich, widow of,
56

Effi Briest
(Fontane),
194

Eichmann, Adolf,
126

Einstein, Albert,
58
–
59

Eisleben, Germany,
49

Elfes, Wilhelm,
25
,
30
–
31

Elser, Georg,
205

“Enabling Law,” Law to Remove the Distress of the People and the State (March 24, 1933),
60
,
130
, insert–
1

enemies of the people and the state

disarming of,
101
–
2

and firearms law amendments,
83
–
85
,
86
,
87
,
90
–
92
,
124
–
26
,
127

Gypsies,
16
,
17
,
125
,
183

penalty for possession of a weapon,
108
, insert–
7

registration of,
126
–
28

repression of,
xi
,
xvi
,
49
,
53
–
57
,
58
–
67

for “Subversive attitude of a Jew,”
151
–
52

See also
Jews; political discrimination; racial discrimination

“Explanation of the Decree Against the Possession of Weapons”
(Völkische Boebachter)
,
176
–
78

F

Fähnrich, Kurt, insert–
2

fascism in Italy,
8

federalism, Nazism vs.,
51

Feuchtwanger, Lion,
59

Finsterwalde, Germany,
76

firearm industry

appeals to Hitler,
81

and firearm laws,
39
–
40
,
41
–
43

See also
license for manufacturing, repairing, or selling firearms

firearms

and government regulation,
217
–
19

laws on testing of,
137
–
38

prohibitionist position,
xvi
,
xx

Weimar officials' ban recommendation,
30
–
32

See also
Law on Firearms and Ammunition of 1928

firearms registration system

Brandenburg Province,
35
–
38
,
69
–
76

in Breslau, Poland,
66

Christianity and,
26

court hearings for failure to register,
92
–
93
,
123
–
24

German states on,
35
–
39

Gestapo's regulations,
207
–
8

Göring in Brandenburg Province,
69
–
76

Hitler's version,
69
–
76

license for manufacturing, repairing, or selling,
16
–
17
,
20

license to carry a weapon,
17
–
18
,
19
,
20

overview,
xvii
,
xvii
n
,
xix
,
23
,
25

in Potsdam,
35
–
36
,
38
,
73

protection of forms,
35

Supreme Court ruling on,
92
–
93

U.S. Congressional debate of 1968 on Gun Control Act,
xvii

See also entries beginning with
“license”

firearms seizures

Decree for the Surrender of Weapons,
60
,
62
–
64

Hitler's campaign,
49
–
51
,
53
–
57

from Jews,
64
–
65
,
72
,
73
,
74
,
141

Nazi disarming of politically unreliable,
69
–
76
,
112
–
13

Nazi plans to seize arms of Reichswehr,
40
–
41

Nazi prohibition of compensation for,
134
,
174
,
178

Nazi's statistics on,
67
–
68

overview,
113
–
14

police reports on,
181
–
82

searches and arrests related to,
97
–
99
,
151
–
56
,
157
,
187
–
92
, insert–
2

vandalism related to,
166
–
68
,
171
,
179
,
192
–
93
,
196
,
198
, insert–
8

violent treatment during,
59
–
60

by Weimar Republic,
37
–
38
,
39
–
40