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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1348609" data-attributes="member: 14668">The Treaty of Versailles which ended WW1 had nothing to do with civilian disarmament, and every thing to do with military disarmament.It forbade Germany from having U-boats or capital warships, and it limited Germany to an army of 100,000 men with no tanks or heavy artillery.By 1937, Hitler had abrogated the Treaty and the rearmament of Germany and the construction of U-boats, battleships such as the Graf Spee, and the reformation of the German Luftwaffe was well underway.Hitler also passed laws that allowed civilian gun ownership for loyal Nazi party and Hitler Youth members, while specifically denying such rights to Jews, Gypsies, and other untermenschen (literally &quot;sub-humans&quot;.)The nations that Germany was initially able to conquer with ease and from where the majority of Jews were subsequently deported (Poland, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine etc.) did not have a tradition of civilian gun ownership, so they could offer no effective guerrilla resistance and the unarmed Jews who lived there were rounded up and slaughtered like cattle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1348609, member: 14668"] The Treaty of Versailles which ended WW1 had nothing to do with [I]civilian[/I] disarmament, and every thing to do with [I]military[/I] disarmament. It forbade Germany from having U-boats or capital warships, and it limited Germany to an army of 100,000 men with no tanks or heavy artillery. By 1937, Hitler had abrogated the Treaty and the rearmament of Germany and the construction of U-boats, battleships such as the [I]Graf Spee,[/I] and the reformation of the German [I]Luftwaffe [/I]was well underway[I].[/I] [B]Hitler also passed laws that allowed civilian gun ownership for loyal Nazi party and Hitler Youth members, while specifically [I]denying[/I] such rights to Jews, Gypsies, and other[I] untermenschen ([/I]literally "sub-humans".)[/B] The nations that Germany was initially able to conquer with ease and from where the majority of Jews were subsequently deported (Poland, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine etc.) did [I]not[/I] have a tradition of civilian gun ownership, so they could offer no effective guerrilla resistance and the unarmed Jews who lived there were rounded up and slaughtered like cattle. [I][/I] [/QUOTE]

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