Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France
Tyranny and Resistance
Published on 1. June 2018
256 pages
978-1-59813-309-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, Stephen P. Halbrook tells this story of Nazi repression and the brave French men and women who refused to surrender to it.
Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940. In every occupied town, Nazi soldiers put up posters that demanded civilians surrender their firearms within twenty-four hours or else be shot. Despite the consequences, many French citizens refused to comply with the order.
Taking advantage of a prewar 1935 French gun registration law, the Nazis used registration records kept by the French police to easily locate gun owners to enforce their demand that firearms be surrendered. Countless French citizens faced firing squads for refusing to comply. But many French citizens had resisted the 1935 decree, preventing the Nazis from fully enforcing the confiscation order. Throughout the Nazi occupation, the French Resistance grew, arming itself to conduct resistance activities and fight back against the occupation.
Drawing on records of the German occupation and testimonies from members of the French resistance, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France is the first book to focus on the Nazis' efforts to disarm the French.
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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute who has argued and won three constitutional law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Halbrook is the author of eight books including The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right To Bear Arms; That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees; Target Switzerland (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); and The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today, and Washington Times, and he has appeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as "The Phil Donahue Show" and programs on Fox Business Network, Court TV, Voice of America, CNN, and C-SPAN.
Content
- Front Cover
- Praise for Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Crisis in the Third Republic
- 2 Pierre Laval Decrees Firearm Registration
- 3 Blitzkrieg, Defeat, and Twenty-Four Hours to Turn in Your Gun or Be Shot
- 4 Occupation and Collaboration
- 5 Weapons Possession: The Core of Criminal Activities of the French
- 6 Amnesty or Execution
- 7 Arms for the Resistance
- 8 Liberation
- Concluding Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Credits for Illustrations
- Index
- About the Author
- Illustrations
