Reply #29: yeah? [View All]

[iverglas]

They enacted stricter gun control over those they wished to destroy.

Roman Catholics, and trade unionists, and communists, and homosexuals, and Roma ... they were all forbidden by law to possess firearms?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

The prohibition on Jews possessing firearms was quite obviously no more than one part of the parcel of oppressive measures visited on Jews.

http://www.wzaponline.com/WhowasaJewinNaziGermany.pdf

... At the Nuremberg Party Congress on September 15, 1935, Hitler, announced three new laws that were to be cornerstones of German racist policies and the suppression of Jews and other non-Aryans. These decrees became known as the Nuremberg Laws. They were decrees which in Nazi Germany had the force of law forbidding contacts between Aryan Germans and Jews, especially marriage and stripping Jews of German citizenship.
The first 1935 decree established the swastika as the official emblem of the German state.
The second established special conditions for German citizenship that excluded all Jews.
The third titled "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" prohibited marriage between German citizens and Jews. Marriages violating this law were voided and extra-marital relations prohibited.
Jews were prohibited from hiring female Germans under 45 years of age. Jews were also prohibited from flying the national flag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

While the Nuremberg Laws established for the first time very clearly who was defined as a Jew, legal discrimination against Jews had come into being earlier and steadily grew as time went on. Among other things, Jews were banned from working for the state or being employed as lawyers, doctors or journalists. Jews were prohibited from using hospitals and could not be educated past the age of 14. Public parks, libraries, beaches were closed to Jews. War memorials were to have Jewish names expunged. Even the lottery could not award winnings to Jews.<14>

Jews were required to adopt a middle name: "Sara" for women and "Israel" for men. Their identification cards were required to have a large "J" stamped on them.<15>

Some Nazi allies in Europe also emulated the Nuremberg laws, passing similar legislation.

But yes, not being allowed to possess firearms, that was what was just the most godawful thing that could have happened to German Jews.