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state, and either supported or tolerated by the majority of the German population. Mr. Carson's suggestion that ordinary
Germans, had they had guns, would have risked their lives in armed resistance against the regime simply does not comport with the regrettable historical reality of a regime that was quite popular at home. Inside Germany, only the army possessed the physical force necessary for defying or overthrowing the Nazis, but the generals had thrown in their lot with Hitler early on.
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or theories as "false" or "debunked". On the whole, gun laws were actually made less stringent for most non-Jewish German citizens during Nazi rule. While Jews were subject to having their guns seized, the gun registry was so incomplete that many Jews retained their guns. In
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