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Charlie Hall's avatar

As of 1933 they didn't have guns; they had to make do with clubs and knives. Germany had banned guns before the Nazi Party existed.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

Maybe in '33, but by then Hitler was chancellor, the SS and SA (until many of them were killed) and the Gestapo were in charge. By '34, Dachau was in place, and the mass arrests of dissidents and opponents had begun. And the SS was definitely armed by then.

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Charlie Hall's avatar

Correct. Contrary to gun nut propaganda, the Nazis RELAXED Germany's gun laws so that their thugs could be armed.

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