Gun control in the Third Reich : disarming the Jews and "enemies of the state" / Stephen P. Halbrook.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.

I: Dancing on a volcano: the Weimar Republic -- Insurrection and repression -- The 1928 law on firearms -- Keeping firearm registrations out of the wrong hands? -- II. 1933: enter the Führer -- The Nazi seizure of power -- Disarming the politically unreliable : the case of Brandenburg -- Defining enemies of the state -- III. Gleichschaltung: forcing into line -- From the night of the long knives to the Nurnberg laws -- The Gestapo -- Hitler's gun control act -- IV. Reichskristallnacht: night of the broken glass -- October prelude : arresting Jewish firearm owners -- Goebbels orchestrates a pogrom -- Jewish victims speak -- Conclusion : whither the German resistance, whither the holocaust?