Gun Control in the Third Reich (39 page)

Plett, Walter,
119

pogroms

in Austria,
173

disarming Jews prior to,
145
–
46
,
159
–
60

German resistance to,
197
–
98

Klemperer on,
105

See also
Reichskristallnacht

Poland,
206
,
212
,
213
–
14

police

arming and use of SA, SS, and Stahlhelm as police,
51
,
54
–
56

arming with confiscated weapons,
73
,
101
–
2

arrest of Nazis,
50
–
51

Gestapo orders for treatment of Jews,
167

and permits for weapons or firearms,
25
–
26
,
208

political police,
66
,
102
,
112
,
113

power to allow possession of firearms,
103
–
5

and seizure of weapons,
49
–
50

types of,
99

See also
SS; Storm Troopers

political discrimination

in civil service,
65
–
66

firearm licenses based on loyalty to Nazi regime,
107
–
9

Jew as “political affiliation” on incident report,
147

Jewish SPD deputy defending his home,
57
–
58

laws supporting,
23
,
26

overview,
45

registration of firearms and disarming politically unreliable,
70
–
76

repression of political opponents, Jews, and other “enemies of the state,”
xv
,
xx
,
49
,
53
–
57
,
58
–
67

by SPD against RFB,
21

in Weimar Republic,
18
–
19
,
23
,
27
–
28
,
32
,
34

See also
racial discrimination

political police,
66
,
102
,
112
,
113

Political Police Commander (Politische Polizeikommandeur) of the Bavarian Interior Ministry,
102
,
112

political violence,
21
,
25
–
26
,
43
,
49
–
50
,
56

Potsdam firearms registration,
35
–
36
,
38
,
73

“prerogative state” (Massnahmenstaat),
52
–
53

Preuss, Hugo,
11
–
12

proletariat,
9
–
10

protective custody/preventive detention procedure,
52
,
104
,
113
,
149
,
192

Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(Jewish plan for domination),
116

Prussian Supreme Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht),
104

public assembly and firearms,
25
,
28

Public Order Police (Ordnungspolizei),
99

R

racial discrimination,
57
–
58
,
64
–
66
,
112
,
113
.
See also
political discrimination

Red Cross nurses (Rotkreuzschwestern), shooting of,
6

Red Front Combat League (RFB),
11
,
21

Reger, Rudolf,
39
–
40

registration of German people,
67
–
68
,
107
,
126
–
28
,
138
,
139
.
See also
firearms registration system

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

Reich Association of German Gunsmiths and Firearm and Ammunition Dealers (Reichsverband Deutscher Büchsenmacher, Waffen und Munitionshändler),
43
,
81

Reich Citizenship Law (1935),
106

Reich Council (Reichsrat),
15
–
16
,
19
–
20

Reich Court (Reichsgericht),
12
,
41
,
151
–
55
,
157
–
58
,
182
–
83

Reich Leadership of German Sports (Reichsführerring des Deutschen Sports),
80

Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt),
138
–
39

Reichman, Hans,
159
–
61
,
161
n
, insert–
5

Reich National Socialist organization for shooting clubs,
119

Reich Party Day, insert–
7

Reich Regional Court (Landgericht),
123
–
24

Reich Registration Order (January
6
, 1938),
138

Reichsbanner paramilitary group,
11
,
12
,
22
,
40
,
55
–
57
,
60
–
61

Reichskristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass)

aftermath,
168
–
71

fear of search,
196

foreign reactions to,
171

Grynszpan shooting of Vom Rath as excuse for,
118
,
155
–
57
,
161
–
62
,
162
–
63
,
175
–
76
, insert–
6

Himmler's decrees,
168
,
169
–
75

instigation/excuse for,
118

Jewish foreign nationals in Germany,
198

Jews' required to pay for damage,
179
–
80

Jews with weapons attempting to comply,
192
–
95

Nazi planning for,
155
,
155
n
,
161
–
62
,
164

orders for treatment of Jews,
166
–
68

overview,
xv
,
xxii
,
163
–
64
,
183
,
185
,
187

resistance to,
197
–
98

searches on,
187
–
92

Reich sport commissar (Reichssportkommissar/Reichssportführer),
80

Reich Sport Office (Reichsbund für Leibesübungen),
121

Reich sports führer (Reichssportführer),
119
–
20

Reichswehr (German army),
5
–
7
,
22
,
40
–
41
,
100
.
See also
Wehrmacht

Reign of Terror and Boxheim plan,
30

“Report Concerning Political Incident”

Adler arrest,
151
–
53
,
154
–
55
,
157
, insert–
4

Flatow arrest,
146
–
49
,
153
–
54
,
155
,
157

Gold arrest,
150
–
51
,
154
,
155

Reichmann arrest, insert–
5

Reppen, Germany,
70
–
73

resistance

armed Jews,
211
–
12
,
213
–
14

Aryans helping Jews,
211

death penalty for,
166
–
67
,
212
–
13

from Federalists,
51

Hitler–Frick Weapons Law on,
132
,
134

Hitler's plan for,
208

overview,
13
,
203
,
216
–
17

plot to kill Hitler,
31
,
139
,
205
,
215
–
16

reasons for lack of,
9
,
50
,
101
,
160
,
172
–
73
,
185
,
198
,
210
–
11
,
214
–
15

Reichskristallnacht,
68
,
196

to Reichskristallnacht,
197
–
98

White Rose student group,
208
–
9

and World War II,
206

See also
Gisevius, Hans Bernd

rights to free speech and assembly,
21

right to bear arms,
44

Rolle, Werner,
113
–
14

Rollkommandos (wrecking crews),
172

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
171

Rubber Truncheon
(Langhoff),
97
–
99

Rumania,
129

S

SA.
See
Storm Troopers

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp,
161

Sackett, Frederic M.,
40

Salter, Günther,
138
–
39

Sauckel, Fritz,
109
–
10

Saurma, Tony,
216

Saxon minister of foreign affairs,
87
–
88

Saxony,
112

Schaeffer, Fritz,
51

Schäfer, Hermann,
29
,
30

Schiller, Friedrich,
117
,
197

Schindler, Oskar,
214

Schlabrendorff, Fabian von,
216

Schleicher, Kurt von,
43
–
44

Schmitz, Wilhelm,
114

Scholl, Hans,
209

Scholl, Sophie,
209

Schumann, Karl, insert–
4

Schützenfest (traditional shooting club event),
121

Sebastian (Roman archer),
120

Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution,
xvi
,
xviii

Second Decree Implementing the Law Concerning the Change in Family Names (August
17
, 1938),
139

Secret State Police.
See
Gestapo

Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei),
99
.
See also
Gestapo

Security Service of the Reich SS Leader (Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS),
99

Seelow, Germany,
76

Semelin, Jacques,
214

“September crisis,”
160

Severing, Carl,
20
–
21
,
43

shock troop (Stoßtrupp Hitler),
166
,
168
–
69

Shooting Association for Free Cologne Sauerland (Schützenbund für das kurkölnische Sauerland),
121
–
22

shooting or touring clubs

firearm license exceptions for,
34

and Führerprinzip,
80
–
81

Gestapo power over,
203
–
4

hunting and sporting arms,
41
–
43
,
124
,
125
–
26
,
180

license revocations,
66

and Nazi firearms law amendments,
86
–
87

and Nazi Gleichschaltung policy,
79
–
81
,
119
–
22

restrictions on,
6
,
16
–
17
,
33

seizure of firearms,
57
,
59
–
60

shooting societies in Northeim, Germany,
59
–
60

Simson, Arthur,
109
–
10

Simson & Co., Thuringia,
109
–
10

Simson, Julius,
109
–
10

Sinzheimer family,
192
–
93

Social Democrat Party.
See
German Social Democrat Party

socialism.
See
National Socialism

Sohn (Jew prosecuted for forbidden weapons possession),
153
,
155
,
182
–
83

Soldin, Germany,
74

Solmitz, Friedrich,
193

Solmitz, Luise,
193
–
94

Sophie Scholl
(film),
209

Sorau, Germany,
75

Spartacists,
4

Spartacist Uprising, German Communist Party,
4

SPD.
See
German Social Democrat Party

Special Deployment Forces (Einsatzgruppen),
212
–
13

sporting organizations,
79
–
81
.
See also
shooting or touring clubs

Spremberg, Germany,
70
,
75
,
76

SS (Schutzstaffel)

and Decree for the Surrender of Weapons,
60
–
61

division for registering the Jews,
126

Göring's arming and use of,
51

Hindenburg's ban of,
41

overview,
61

as police,
51
,
54
–
56

treatment of prisoners in concentration camps,
97
–
99

Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets)

criticism of regime,
98
,
100

and Decree for the Surrender of Weapons,
60
–
61

Göring's arming and use of,
51

Hindenburg as member of,
28

Hitler's abolition of,
61
,
66