Author: Stephen P. Holbrook <\/span><\/p>\n Subtitle: Disarming the Jews and the "Enemies of the State" <\/span><\/p>\n Essential reading on the eve of the disaster that is a Hillary presidency. <\/span><\/p>\n "Gun Control in the Third Reich, Stephen Halbrook's excellent history of gun control in Germany, shows that, motives notwithstanding, removing weapons from the general population always disarms society vis a vis its worst elements. In Germany the authorities tried to deal with the Nazi and Communist mobs that were shaking society's foundations indirectly, by disarming ordinary people. But their cowardice ended up delivering a helpless population to the Nazis' tender mercies. Halbrook's richly documented history leads Americans to ask why those among us who decry violence in our society choose to try tightening the vise on ordinary citizens' capacity to defend themselves rather than to constrain the sectors of society most responsible for the violence." \u2014Angelo M. Codevilla, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Boston University; author, Informing Statecraft, War: Ends and Means (with Paul Seabury), The Character of Nations, and Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History.<\/span><\/p>\n "What good would private arms do against a totalitarian state? That won't remain an unanswerable rhetorical challenge for readers of Stephen Halbrook's calm, detailed scholarly book, Gun Control in the Third Reich<\/em>. As Halbrook shows, Nazi leaders went to great lengths to extend the gun control laws they inherited from the Weimar Republic. They were obsessed with disarming Jews and other designated public enemies. Potential resistance was not only physically disabled. It was morally and psychologically disarmed. Evil then became irresistible in Germany, not because it was fueled by fanaticism but because shielded by fatalism." \u2014Jeremy A. Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law<\/span><\/p>\n "Even a defense with small arms against a tyrannical regime, if known, can galvanize public opinion which is the ultimate source of all political authority. That is why, as Halbrook authoritatively shows in Gun Control in the Third Reich<\/em>, the Nazis-despite their massive military force-went out of their way to confiscate even small caliber weapons in Germany." \u2014Donald W. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Emory University<\/span><\/p>\n Read reviews and order at Amazon.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n